Re: st: Features for Stata 14

[Simon <scmoore.lists@googlemail.com>]

Sorry of this is a little tangential. I occasionally work with data sets 
that I prefer to keep encrypted. At the moment I have to mount a true 
crypt drive then run stata as required. Would it be possible to have an 
encrypted version of a .dta file where stata manages access and requests 
the pass phrase? It would make life a little simpler and possibly a 
little more secure as only Stata would (possibly) have access to the 
decrypted data.

Simon




On 02/09/2013 16:00, 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.
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> Multivariate mixed-effects models
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> Exploratory Factor Analysis with nominal/ordinal/non-normal variables
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> Improved debugging tools (e.g., stepwise evaluator for programs, more informative error messages, etc...)
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> New ways to generate samples of data with specified correlation structures/distributions
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> I'm curious to see what other people have to say on this topic as well.
>
> Billy
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