Re: re:Re: st: NEW MODULE: wbdata - World Bank Data Bases

[Robert A Yaffee <bob.yaffee@nyu.edu>]

Kit,
   wbdata is an ado file to convert a data set to an S+ type
data format for using WinBUGS from Stata.   It was written by
John Thompson at Leicester University in the UK.
   - Bob


Robert A. Yaffee, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Silver School of Social Work
New York University

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----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>
Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011 5:24 pm
Subject: re:Re: st: NEW MODULE: wbdata - World Bank Data Bases
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu


> <>
> Austin said
> 
> Note that -wbdata- is a program described at
> 
> http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=st0115
> 
> and this hit is turned up by -findit wbdata-
> but wbdta turns up no hits on -findit- so consider renaming the program.
> 
> Does your package refer to
> 
> http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_pecats.ado
> 
> or a newer file?
> 
> findit _pecats
> turns up a lot of hits, so I hope SSC authors are not overwriting each
> others' work.
> 
> 
> 
> As has been pointed out, _pecats is described in JP's helpfile for 
> wbdata as a Long and Freese module. He has included
> it in several other routines on SSC, with acknowledgement. That's why 
> there was already a _pecats.ado on SSC (although 
> Long and Freese software is not generally available from SSC).
> 
> I was unaware of the name conflict because the material referenced 
> above from the SJ was never on SSC. It is JP's call as to whether he 
> should rename his routine. Obviously there can only be one ado-file of 
> a given name on SSC, but that does not prevent name reuse between STB, 
> SJ, SSC and user-provided archives. There is the issue of 'who got 
> there first', but then I had a routine on SSC for some time, only to 
> find a routine with the same name appearing in a new issue of the SJ...
> 
> Kit
> 
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