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From | Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: Hypergeometric function |
Date | Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:09:25 -0400 |
Edward Norton <ecnorton@umich.edu>: See help f_hypergeometric http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?f_hypergeometric but it depends on the details, probably... ssc desc gbgfit will link you to a help file that says in part: The Gini coefficient is not calculated as this requires evaluation of the generalized hypergeometric 3F2, and this function is not currently available in Stata. Online evaluators are available, at e.g. wolfram.com, where you can plug in specific parameter values to calculate the generalized hypergeometric 3F2, then use the formula given by McDonald (1984) to calculate the Gini. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Edward Norton <ecnorton@umich.edu> wrote: > Does Stata have a built-in hypergeometric function? The hypergeometric > function is an infinite series related to differential equations. (I do not > need the hypergeometric distribution, which is different and related to > sampling without replacement.) > > Thank you in advance. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/