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There was a rumor when I was in econ grad school that there was a huge bug in Stata in the nineties affecting standard error calculations, rendering a large fra
by Gimpei 7y ago
There was a rumor when I was in econ grad school that there was a huge bug in Stata in the nineties affecting standard error calculations, rendering a large fraction of the studies from that time invalid.
- zhdc1 7y agoThis should be easy to verify though. I would be more worried about some of the more popular Stata macros & R libraries. I've spent a good amount of time on several occasions trying to reconcile results from Stata and R, only to be stopped - I hope - by limited or technically dense documentation that I couldn't grok (...or the code was bad)
- Gimpei 7y agoShould be, but coding standards among professors of econ are generally abysmal. It's a big gap in the educational system for social scientists.
- Dayshine 7y agoStata doesn't even version its packages, so it's literally impossible to reproduce research as you can't retrieve the packages as they were then. The maintainer of a popular package could choose to change their api today and all code using it would break with no way to revert. Stata is insanity.
- Gimpei 7y agoI agree. And it's expensive whereas R is free and a much much much better language.