st: New version of -somersd- on SSC

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks as always to the services of Kit Baum, who seems on this occasion 
to have updated SSC when absent from Boston, a new version of the 
-somersd- is now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the 
-ssc- command to do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old 
version of -somersd-.

The -somersd- package is described as below on my website. The new 
version has been updated to Stata Version 12. It also fixes a 
rarely-encountered bug, which caused -somersd- to fail when Somers' D 
was calculated as being slightly greater than 1 or slightly less than 
-1, as in 1+1e-16 or -1-1e-16. This occasionally used to happen when 
sampling probability weights were used, in spite of using double or 
quadruple precision in Mata. The new version rounds values of Somers' D 
down to 1 if greater than 1 or up to -1 if less than -1, so the bug is 
now fixed. I would like to thank Kerry Kammire of Stata Technical 
Support for her very helpful advice that fixing Mata bugs in a .mlib 
file necessitates either a version upgrade or access to an earlier 
version of Stata.

Users of earlier versions of Stata can still download the Stata Version 
5, 6, 9 or 10 versions of -somersd- from my website by typing, in Stata,

net from "http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/";

and selecting the subdirectory for the most recent Stata version 
compatible with their own, and installing the appropriate version of 
-somersd-.

Best wishes

Roger


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TITLE
      somersd: Kendall's tau-a, Somers' D and percentile slopes

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      The somersd package contains the programs somersd, censlope and 
cendif,
      which calculate confidence intervals for a range of parameters behind
      rank or "nonparametric" statistics. somersd calculates confidence
      intervals for generalized Kendall's tau-a or Somers' D parameters,
      and stores the estimates and their covariance matrix as 
estimation results.
      It can be used on left-censored, right-censored, clustered and/or
      stratified data. censlope is an extended version of somersd, 
which also
      calculates confidence limits for the generalized Theil-Sen median 
slopes
      (or other percentile slopes) corresponding to the version of 
Somers' D
      or Kendall's tau-a estimated. cendif is an easy-to-use program to
      calculate confidence intervals for Hodges-Lehmann median differences
      (or other percentile differences) between two groups. The somersd 
package
      can be used to calculate confidence intervals for a wide range of
      rank-based parameters, which are special cases of Kendall's tau-a,
      Somers' D or percentile slopes. These parameters include differences
      between proportions, Harrell's c index, areas under receiver 
operating
      characteristic (ROC) curves, differences between Harrell's c 
indices or
      ROC areas, Gini coefficients, population attributable risks, median
      differences, ratios, slopes and per-unit ratios, and the parameters
      behind the sign test and the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney or Breslow-Gehan
      ranksum tests. Full documentation of the programs (including 
methods and
      formulas) can be found in the manual files somersd.pdf, 
censlope.pdf and
      cendif.pdf, which can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-date: 30may2012
      Stata-version: 12


INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      cendif.ado
      censlope.ado
      somers_p.ado
      somersd.ado
      _bcsf_bisect.mata
      _bcsf_bracketing.mata
      _bcsf_regula.mata
      _bcsf_ridders.mata
      _blncdtree.mata
      _somdtransf.mata
      _u2jackpseud.mata
      _v2jackpseud.mata
      blncdtree.mata
      tidot.mata
      tidottree.mata
      lsomersd.mlib
      cendif.sthlp
      censlope.sthlp
      censlope_iteration.sthlp
      mf_bcsf_bracketing.sthlp
      mf_blncdtree.sthlp
      mf_somdtransf.sthlp
      mf_u2jackpseud.sthlp
      somersd.sthlp
      somersd_mata.sthlp

ANCILLARY FILES                                     (click here to get)
      cendif.pdf
      censlope.pdf
      somersd.pdf
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