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Re: Re: st: Stata 12 -twoway function, horizontal recast(area)- bug affecting -confunnel-
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Tom Palmer <[email protected]>
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Re: Re: st: Stata 12 -twoway function, horizontal recast(area)- bug affecting -confunnel-
Date
Thu, 5 Apr 2012 20:59:58 +0100
With thanks to Stata Corp this bug has indeed been fixed in yesterday's (4th April) update.
Tom
> Tom Palmer <[email protected]> reported
>
> > There is a problem in Stata version 12.1 (and 12.0) when -twoway function- > is used with the -horizontal- and -recast(area)- options. In the following
> > the second overlaid plot is drawn incorrectly:
> >
> > twoway function x, horizontal || function x, horizontal recast(area)
> >
> > The bug does not occur when I run this code in Stata version 11.2, but
> > strangely does occur in Stata 12.1 under version control, i.e. the above
> > command prefixed with say -version 11.2:-
> >
> > My -confunnel- program (for contour enhanced funnel plots in meta-analysis)
> > uses commands like this and hence its plots under Stata 12 with shaded
> > regions (the default) are now incorrect, luckily -confunnel- plots using
> > the -noshadedregions- option are unaffected.
> >
>
> In the 06feb2012 update of Stata 12, -twoway area- was changed to use an
> internal drawing routine that is significantly faster over large datasets.
> A bug was introduced in the process which drew the plot incorrectly if
> the -horizontal- option was used.
>
> We will fix the bug in the next executable update.
>
>
> Hua
> [email protected]
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