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Re: st: RE: finding a particular user written program
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Abhimanyu Arora <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: finding a particular user written program
Date
Thu, 20 May 2010 21:17:38 +0200
Thanks very much indeed, Martin and Nick.
Best regards
Abhimanyu
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not sure I have ever seen a wrapper defined. I just use the word!
> Here's my attempt:
>
> A wrapper program is a program wrapped around another program.
>
> Usually one or more of the following is true:
>
> 1. The program inside is a substantial program that does most of the
> work, especially heavy or dirty work.
>
> 2. The wrapper sets up the user to carry out a specific application of
> the program inside.
>
> 3. The wrapper may act as a kind of translator that maps concepts on the
> level of the application to the syntax of the program inside.
>
> 4. The wrapper is meant to be friendly or convenient to the user, e.g.
> to save the user reading a mass of documentation to find out which
> specific commands to use.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> Abhimanyu Arora
>
> Thanks a lot Martin, How do we define a "wrapper" program please?
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Try
>>
>> ***********
>> ssc d ssm
>> ***********
>>
>> or maybe -ssc d cmp-.
>
> Abhimanyu Arora
>
>> Is there any user written-program for estimation of count-data models
>> with endogenous selection?
>
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