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  • New version of somersd on SSC

    Thanks as always to Kit Baum, a new version of the somersd package is now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the ssc command to do this or adoupdate if you; already have an old version of somersd.

    The somersd package is described as below on my website. The new version fixes a serious bug, which prevented somersd from working under Stata Versions 12, 13 and 14, although it worked under Stata Version 15. (Users of these versions had to download the Stata Version 10 version of somersd from my website). This serious bug appeared because I used Stata Version 15 to compile the Mata library for the previous version of somersd (dated September 2018). In the new somersd, the Mata library has been compiled using Stata Version 12, as it should have been. This has enabled the new somersd to work uder Stata Versions 12 to 14. All the same, I would like to apologise to somersd users for making this stupid mistake, and to thank Louisa Gnatiuc of Oxford University for alerting me to the problem..

    Best wishes

    Roger

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    package somersd from http://www.rogernewsonresources.org.uk/stata12
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    TITLE
    somersd: Kendall's tau-a, Somers' D and percentile slopes

    DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
    The somersd package contains the programs somersd, censlope and cendif,
    which calculate confidence intervals for a range of parameters behind
    rank or "nonparametric" statistics. somersd calculates confidence
    intervals for generalized Kendall's tau-a or Somers' D parameters,
    and stores the estimates and their covariance matrix as estimation results.
    It can be used on left-censored, right-censored, clustered and/or
    stratified data. censlope is an extended version of somersd, which also
    calculates confidence limits for the generalized Theil-Sen median slopes
    (or other percentile slopes) corresponding to the version of Somers' D
    or Kendall's tau-a estimated. cendif is an easy-to-use program to
    calculate confidence intervals for Hodges-Lehmann median differences
    (or other percentile differences) between two groups. The somersd package
    can be used to calculate confidence intervals for a wide range of
    rank-based parameters, which are special cases of Kendall's tau-a,
    Somers' D or percentile slopes. These parameters include differences
    between proportions, Harrell's c index, areas under receiver operating
    characteristic (ROC) curves, differences between Harrell's c indices or
    ROC areas, Gini coefficients, population attributable risks, median
    differences, ratios, slopes and per-unit ratios, and the parameters
    behind the sign test and the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney or Breslow-Gehan
    ranksum tests. Full documentation of the programs (including methods and
    formulas) can be found in the manual files somersd.pdf, censlope.pdf and
    cendif.pdf, which can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

    Author: Roger Newson
    Distribution-date: 10january2019
    Stata-version: 12.1


    INSTALLATION FILES (click here to install)
    cendif.ado
    censlope.ado
    somers_p.ado
    somersd.ado
    _bcsf_bisect.mata
    _bcsf_bracketing.mata
    _bcsf_regula.mata
    _bcsf_ridders.mata
    _blncdtree.mata
    _somdtransf.mata
    _u2jackpseud.mata
    _v2jackpseud.mata
    blncdtree.mata
    tidot.mata
    tidottree.mata
    lsomersd.mlib
    cendif.sthlp
    censlope.sthlp
    censlope_iteration.sthlp
    mf_bcsf_bracketing.sthlp
    mf_blncdtree.sthlp
    mf_somdtransf.sthlp
    mf_u2jackpseud.sthlp
    somersd.sthlp
    somersd_mata.sthlp

    ANCILLARY FILES (click here to get)
    cendif.pdf
    censlope.pdf
    somersd.pdf
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    (click here to return to the previous screen)


  • #2
    Thank you Roger for this excellent package. I have been using somersd for a few months now. Do you happen to know if there is a guide for interpretation of the somer's d analogous to the guidelines for Cohen's D?

    Al Bothwell

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