NEW FEATURES StataNow™ – June 2024


now has the new option bgfill(), which specifies whether to use the background fill  in the .eps, .ps or pdf file.

    1. graph set:
      1. an Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) file;
      2. a PostScript (.ps) file PostScript file.
      3. a PDF (.pdf) file.

now has the new setting bgfill(), which specifies whether to use the background fill when using graph export to export Stata’s graphs to an .eps, .ps or pdf file.

    1. (StataNow™) areg with more than two absorb variables and xtreg, fe with option absorb() could in rare cases produce incorrect results because of numerical difficulties during the iterative projection algorithm (the iteration log would show a maximum absolute difference that increased before eventually converging).  A check for numerical instability has been added that will terminate the search in these cases and issue error message “convergence not achieved” after displaying the coefficient table.

 

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    1. etable, when specified with a named expression involving r() results in option mstat(), reported a missing value if option margins was not specified.  For example,
      • sysuse auto
      • logistic for mpg turn
      • estat gof
      • etable, column(index)

mstat(N)
mstat(chi2_gof=(r(chi2)), label(GOF χ²))
mstat(p_gof=(r(p)), label(GOF p-value))

reported a missing value for chi2_gof and p_gof. This has been fixed.

    1. The Mata function ustrtoname(s), when s was an empty string, crashed Stata.  This has now been fixed.