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Editorial announcements
metan: fixed– and random–effects meta–analysis: R. Harris, M. Bradburn, J. Deeks, R. Harbord, D. Altman, and J. Sterne
A tool for deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analysis of epidemiologic studies: N. Orsini, R. Bellocco, M. Bottai, A. Wolk, and S. Greenland
A new framework for managing and analyzing multiply imputed data in Stata: J. B. Carlin, J. C. Galati, and P. Royston
Tests for unbalanced error–components models under local misspecification: W. Sosa-Escudero and A. K. Bera
fuzzy: A program for performing qualitative comparative analyses (QCA) in Stata: K. C. Longest and S. Vaisey
Speaking Stata: Spineplots and their kin: N. J. Cox
Review of Applied Health Economics by Jones, Rice, Bago d'Uva, and Balia: S. P. Jenkins
Review of Event History Analysis with Stata by Blossfeld, Golsch, and Rohwer: F. Kalter
Stata tip 56: Writing parameterized text files: R. Gini
Stata tip 57: How to reinstall Stata: W. Gould
Stata tip 58: nl is not just for nonlinear models: B. P. Poi
Stata tip 59: Plotting on any transformed scale: N. J. Cox
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