ssc install | nothing to install

[Luis Pecht]

Hi, never received such response from SSC. Very uninformative.

. ssc install mountainplot
nothing to install

. help mountainplot


package mountainplot from http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/m


TITLE
      'MOUNTAINPLOT': module to produce folded empirical distribution function curves (mountain plots)

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      
       mountainplot produces mountain plots for variables in a varlist
      as proposed by Monti (1995), and mountain plots for differences
      between variables in a varlist as proposed by Krouwer and Monti
      (1995).  A mountainplot is a graphical representation of an
      empirical cumulative distribution function in which percentile
      values above 50 are "folded" (i.e. subtracted from 100 in order
      to produce a reverse ordering). The resulting graphic resembles a
      mountain where the peak is approximately at the median. Monti
      (1995) suggests that mountain plots allow the user to perform the
      following: (1) determine the median, (2) determine the range, (3)
      determine the central or tail percentiles of any magnitude, (4)
      observe outliers, (5) observe unusual gaps in the data, (6)
      examine the data for symmetry, (7) compare several distributions
      and (8), visually gauge the sample size. Krouwer and Monti (1995)
      propose creating a mountain plot as a complementary to the Bland
      and Altman plot (Bland and Altman 1986).  Here, the mountain plot
      represents the percentile difference between a new test and a
      reference test (Y-axis).  This percentile difference is then
      plotted against the difference between the two tests (X-axis).
      
      KW: cumulative distribution function
      KW: mountain plot
      KW: percentile plot
      KW: quantile plot
      
      Requires: Stata version 11
      
      Distribution-Date: 20230825
      
      Author: Ariel Linden, Linden Consulting Group, LLC
      Support: email [email protected]
      
       ../r/mountainplot.ado
       ../r/mountainplot.sthlp
       ../l/lungfunction.dta

INSTALLATION AND ANCILLARY FILES
      (none)

Should I contact the program's owner , Kit Baum or wait ?

thanks

[Nick Cox]

This looks to me like a small slip at the SSC end as files whose names begin with m should be stored under that letter in the SSC folders.

On a different level: various bibliographic notes on mountain plots and related plots are included in the help for stripplot on SSC.

[Nick Cox]

Here is a work-around until the files are put where they should be. (I've flagged the glitch to Kit Baum directly.)

Use

adopath

to find out where PLUS is on your system.

Navigate in Stata using the cd command to folder m off (of) PLUS (creating it first if it doesn't exist).

ssc copy mountainplot.ado 

ssc copy mountainplot.sthlp

which copy files to the current working directory.

[Luis Pecht]

Thanks, Nick

. cd C:\ado\plus\m
C:\ado\plus\m

. ssc copy mountainplot.ado 
(file mountainplot.ado copied to current directory)

. ssc copy mountainplot.sthlp
(file mountainplot.sthlp copied to current directory)

. which mountainplot
.\mountainplot.ado
*! 1.0.0 Ariel Linden 17Aug2023