Re: st: Stata 12: wish list

[Thomas Speidel <thomas@tmbx.com>]

While I understand the intricacies of such a task, for me too this has  
been on the wish list for some time.  Judging from the number of  
user-written programs, the presentations at user group meetings and  
conferences and how Some Alternative Sofwtare (don't remember who came  
up with this acronym) fares in this area, I suspect the folks at Stata  
are taking notice.  I am not sure how far up this topic is in the  
priority list.

One common response I hear is that solutions exists in the form of  
user written programs.  There is a large number of great work (Ian  
Watson, John Gallup, Michael Lokshin, Ben Jann, Roger Newson to name a  
few authors).  But these tend to be ad-hoc solutions:  some only  
handle a certain type of data, some will display p-values but no  
confidence intervals, etc etc. This in my view has the side effect of  
forcing the user to either write his or her program, or produce the  
tables from scratch in Excel/OpenOffice/Latex.

Making more estimates available after estimation and more results  
stored in locals in general could perhaps be a good starting point.   
Eventually, I would love to see more automation in this area from Stata.

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Thomas Speidel

Quoting Richard Ohrvall <richard.ohrvall@gmail.com> Mon  1 Nov 14:15:54 2010:

> I do not know if requests for features in the coming version of Stata
> is of any use, but since it seems as if the Stata people are reading
> this list and they seem like nice people, I take my chance.
>
> I would really like a better support for creating tables in the next
> version of Stata. By this I mean an output of tables that is easily
> imported into Word or any other word processor. I would also like to
> see a bit more flexibility in the table commands. To me it is a bit
> surprising that you e.g. can't control the number of decimals in the
> output of -tab-. This is very annoying when you want to see a
> proportion with a specific number of decimals. All other major
> statistical programs seem to be ahead of Stata in these aspects. Yes,
> I know that there are user-written programs that do these things, but
> these seem like basic functions that should be included in the
> program. One solution could be an optional output window (like the
> graph window), so that those who want to keep the present design and
> output could do so.
>
> All the best,
> Richard
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