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RE: st: tabulation of comparison outcomes in -somersd-
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: tabulation of comparison outcomes in -somersd-
Date
Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:29:13 +0100
<sacrifice>
Roger: Thanks for changing that name. However, you lost out on any future competition for the most bizarre-looking Stata program name in history. It sounds like a long drink going down a very thirsty throat.
Nick
[email protected]
Roger Newson
[...]
As it happens, the original ancestor of -somersd- was called -lllgglgg-,
and calculated output variables ll, lg, gl and gg, containing,
respectively, in each observation, the number of other observations with
a lesster X-value and a lesser Y-value, the number of observations with
a lesser X-value and a greater Y-value, the number of observations with
a greater X-value and a lesser Y-value, and the number of observations
with a greater X-value and a greater Y-value.
[...]
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