--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> A couple of details in addition to Maarten's very helpful post:
>
> This program lacks a -version- statement.
>
> It will, I think, work in Stata 9 or 10. The use of -levelsof- means
> that it would not work in Stata 8 or earlier. Changing -levelsof- to
> -levels- would be a fix for (updated) Stata 8.
>
> Also, when was -xtset- introduced?
Thanks for that. -xtset- was documented in Stata 9 as forthcomming, so
there would be no need to change to -levels- as -mkbalanced- won't work
in Stata 8 anyhow. the version statement of -mkbalanced- should
probably be:
version 9.2
or
version 9.1
I am not particularly interested in making this program more generally
available (e.g. through -ssc-), eventhough that is now trivially easy.
The reason is that I don't think that this command is very useful. This
way you can easily end up ignoring 90% or more of your data. All I
wanted to show is that if you want a command you can easily make one
yourself.
-- Maarten
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