st: RE: AW: RE: AW: Identifying unique values with codebook

["Airey, David C" <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

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-Inspect- is not a very useful command.

It gives a silly graph (no offense to the author), and a table of the number of negative, zero, or positive observations broken down by integer or noninteger status.

Inspect is kind of married to the command -plot-. Remember that one? It makes characters plots:

sysuse auto
plot mpg weight

Maybe Stata Corp can give -plot- a spouse and they can live happily in the land of Deprecato.


> -inspect- has its fans, but I am not among them. 
> 
> -inspect- seems to regard strings as failed numerics, and refuses to
> look inside. It would be simpler to ignore all strings. 
> 
> I wonder whether some kind of review of -inspect- is called for.
> Whatever -inspect- does that differs from -codebook- could be taken into
> -codebook-, perhaps. -inspect- could remain available under version
> control. 
> 
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 




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