Installing an ado file in STATA

[Hina Khalid]

I'm trying to install an ado file for Bias Reduced Linearization of standard errors to correct for the small number of clusters (8). I followed the steps that are specified online (such as creating a new folder with the name personal in the ado files) but I still can't get the brl package successfully installed. Any guidance will be very helpful and appreciated. Thank you!

[Friedrich Huebler]

Please provide complete references, including the website where the brl package can be found.

findit brl

returns this result in Stata:

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I googled "Stata brl" and came across a file called BRL_Moulton.zip at https://economics.byu.edu/frandsen/Pages/software.aspx. Is that what you are trying to install? If so, follow these steps:

• Download the ZIP file.
• Extract the contents of the ZIP file to a temporary folder.
• Type personal in Stata and note the location of your personal ado-directory (usually c:\ado\personal\).
• Move all extracted files to the personal ado-directory.
• Type help brl in Stata to open the help file. This confirms that the package was properly installed.
• You can now use brl.

[Hina Khalid]

It worked! Thank you so much!