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Re: st: RE: Features for Stata 14
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Features for Stata 14
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Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:09:44 +0000
You have me there. I don't recollect any such comments.
Perhaps search the archives using my name, but I can't imagine that I
identified anything insoluble by those sufficiently smart.
Nick
[email protected]
On 18 February 2014 19:57, Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
> I know we had a long discussion of this issue a few years ago. Nick contributed some reasons why interactive transformations may not work - but I don't remember what his argument was. Nick - do you mind stating your argument again or pointing us to where it is in the archives?
Jacobs, David
> I second Richard's suggestions. At least two statistical packages (EViews for example) let users construct variable modifications using useful functions such as the log or the square root interactively in the command space.
>
> In addition to being extremely convenient, this feature saves storage space because one doesn't have to keep such transformed variables in data files.
Richard Williams
> * More powerful commands for factor variables. For example, be able to specify the log of a variable and other functions of variables that may be useful.
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