Re: st: stcompet updated

[Steven Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net>]

-ssc install stcompet- returns this message:

"server refused to send file
could not copy http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/stcompet.sthlp
(no action taken)"

Stata 10.1 OS X 10.4.11

-Steve
On Nov 9, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Enzo Coviello wrote:

> Dear Stata Users,
>
> some days ago Hugh Robinson reported in the Statalist a problem  
> occurring when -stcompet-, a macro computing the cumulative  
> incidence, is used.
>
> Thanks to his collaboration, the following check revealed that - 
> stcompet- cannot handle properly the survival data when the enter  
> option in previous -stset- statement has been specified as -enter 
> (varname==numlist)-. Note that the macro produces correct estimates  
> if -enter- is specified as -enter(time exp)-.
>
> Thanks to Kit Baum the new version -stcompet- makes this further  
> check  and  issues an error message without producing in this case  
> a wrong cumulative incidence estimate.
>
> In this circumstance -stcompet- has been updated to version 10  
> removing the dependence from two Stata user's commands.
> Therefore, not having Stata version 10, -stcompet- should not be  
> updated.
>
> Bets wishes.
>
> Enzo
>
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