Re: st: Stata 13 wishlist

[William Buchanan <william@williambuchanan.net>]

It's been requested several times previously, but including some capacity to control the transparency in graphs (e.g., an option for alpha blending). Adding some documentation to help end-users develop new graph commands more easily would also be incredibly helpful (Sergey R. presented on this topic and the Beamer slides can be found easily via google).

Re: John,
I'm not in the best Internet browsing situation at the moment, but I had read a post where either Cameron McIntosh or Stas Kolenikov suggested that the ADF estimator is equivalent to the WLS estimator in Mplus. 

If nothing else I think speeding up some of the -xt- commands would be pretty awesome (e.g., xtmelogit, xtmepoisson, etc...). Another previously mentioned suggestion was to help make it easier for users to integrate Stata with other scripting and/or programming languages (i.e., python).

Since the documentation is prepared in LaTeX, maybe an electronic copy in a format other than PDF would be helpful as well.

Just my $ 0.02,
Billy

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On Jan 2, 2013, at 7:53, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:

> Postings on this point seem to be overlooking the Graph Recorder.
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:44 PM, John Antonakis <John.Antonakis@unil.ch> wrote:
>> 
>> I second that suggestion:
>> 
>> "to show commands and syntaxes in the results window". Oftentimes, it is
>> hard to figure out the syntax when making minor edits to a graph....it would
>> be so helpful if we could see the syntax that makes the change.
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