Re: st: AW: adjust vs. margins revisited

[David Jacobs <jacobs.184@sociology.osu.edu>]

I agree Richard.

Dave Jacobs

At 01:33 PM 7/30/2010, you wrote:
> At 11:23 AM 7/30/2010, Martin Weiss wrote:
>
> > <>
> >
> > At the German UGM in June, during "Wishes and Grumbles", I requested a table
> > providing a one-to-one mapping between the old -adjust- syntax and the new
> > -margins- syntax to give credence to the assertion in the (version 11.1)
> > help for -adjust- that
> >
> > "...the margins command can do everything that adjust did and more". So
> > let`s hope it will materialise...
> Margins is powerful but complicated. I've heard lots of people say 
> they haven't figured it out yet. Even if they would be redundant, I 
> wish the -adjust- and -mfx- commands would be updated for Stata 
> 11.  Saying that only -margins- is needed is sort of like saying you 
> don't need commands like -regress- and -logit- because you've got 
> -glm-. Breaking a complicated command into simpler, specialized 
> pieces has a lot of value, in my opinion.
>
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