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If the output is changing each time you run the command, it would be
good to actually see the -istdize- command that you are using and the
output that it's generating each time.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Javier
Sanchez
Sent: Tuesday, 22 September 2009 1:04 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: istdtize
I was trying to use the istdize command and realized that some of the
outputs (eg. Number of observed events) are incorrect and change each
time I run the command (this problem was posted before but could not
find an answer). Also the number of cases might be different from the
same strata when looking at the stratified outputs as compared to the
summary outputs. After exploring the ado file, I found that there might
be a couple of lines missing in the file. The basic problem is when
there is more than one group, the total number of cases is no added and
the command is using a random line with the cases from that particular
observation. Since I am not an expert on Stata, I added this basic lines
to the ado file and the outputs look correct but it would be nice if
somebody else could look into this as well since there are many papers
citing the use of this command that might have some errors.
istdize.ado
line 1 ............
.
.
line 163 qui by `Gc': replace `topop'=`topop'[_N]
**************NEW*****************
qui by `Gc': replace `cases'=sum(`cases')
qui by `Gc': replace `cases'=`cases'[_N]
************** END NEW************
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