Re: st: Features for Stata 14

[Phil Clayton <philclayton@internode.on.net>]

The new -fp- command supports factor variables - can you give an example where it isn't working as desired?

Phil

On 03/09/2013, at 9:30 AM, Adam Olszewski <adam.olszewski@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com> 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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