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Re: st: Features for Stata 14
From
Adam Olszewski <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Features for Stata 14
Date
Mon, 2 Sep 2013 19:30:24 -0400
I will add something that annoys me a lot since I do not like the
otherwise obsolete "xi:" prefix:
- make -fp- and -mfp- commands recognize and omit factor variables
AO
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Richard Williams
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Good idea. I will add
>
> * Easier use of margins and marginsplot with multiple-outcome commands like
> mlogit and ologit. All this having to add predict(outcome(#1)),
> predict(outcome(#2)), etc. is a real pain. The user written routines -mfx2-
> and -margeff- made efforts to simplify things but overall they can't match
> the many other things margins can do.
>
> * Have factor variables support more functions of variables, e.g. log(x),
> square root(x), x/y, etc.
>
> * More foolproof installation procedures for network administrators who know
> nothing about Stata. Why? My classroom did not have Stata, so I requested
> it. So, they gave me Stata 12 and I said I wanted 12.1. I'm not sure what
> they did, but rather than follow my -update all- instructions they did
> something else and now I have this weird hybrid of Stata 12 and 12.1. This
> isn't of much use to me because I get a fatal error when I run a regress
> command! Installing and updating seems pretty easy to me but if you can make
> it even easier for people who have to install dozens of different programs
> that would be nice.
>
> At 10:00 AM 9/2/2013, William Buchanan wrote:
>>
>> Since it is still fairly early in the development cycle for the next
>> release of Stata, I thought it might be good to start a thread about things
>> that people would like to see added to the next release.
>>
>> I would definitely be interested in seeing some updates/expansions to the
>> graphics capabilities of Stata. Alpha level blending is something that has
>> come up several times and adding interactive graphics would be a great
>> addition to the existing commands (e.g., functionality that is common in
>> Tableau and several packages in R).
>>
>> Documentation of the lower level graphics commands to make it easier for
>> users to extend the graphics capabilities.
>>
>> Latent Class Analysis and Latent Transition Analysis with support for all
>> types of manifest variables.
>>
>> Multivariate mixed-effects models
>>
>> Exploratory Factor Analysis with nominal/ordinal/non-normal variables
>>
>> Improved debugging tools (e.g., stepwise evaluator for programs, more
>> informative error messages, etc...)
>>
>> New ways to generate samples of data with specified correlation
>> structures/distributions
>>
>> I'm curious to see what other people have to say on this topic as well.
>>
>> Billy
>
>
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