Stata commands designed for Impact Evaluations in particular, but also data work in general
Small update to fix the following issues: #329, #339, #345, #346, #347
ieboilstart, adopath(). Making the suboption to adopath() required as either strict or nostrict. nostrict replaces what we previously called "default mode". But that was a terrible name as we want strict to be the standard use case.Hot fix to bug in new version of iebaltab. Version 7.0 introduced syntax not allowed in Stata older than 16.
ietoolkit version 7.0
New command: iesave. This command is meant to replace the built in command save. iesave applies best practices for research data before saving a data set. It also have the option to save a report in Git friendly format with meta data about the data set and the variables in it. This report can be used to track changes to the data on Git without tracking the data set itself on Git. See more in helpfile.
New major feature: ieboilstart, adopath(). This new option makes reproducible research best practices, in relation to user-written commands and ado-files, easily accessible. This ado-path settings has recently emerged as the gold standard when creating replication packages, but has required a very advanced knowledge of how ado-paths work in Stata. This is no longer needed as this new option makes using that best practice simple. See more in helpfile.
Major re-write: iebaltab. A complete re-write of the command was undertaken. This command was written in a way where it was difficult to add new features. This major re-write deprecate some old options so it could potentially break old code. Apart from that, the only changes noticeable to a user should be minor changes to the column order in the outputted table. This command now also returns two matrices with all the estimates generated from the command. These matrices allows a user to create their own custom LaTeX table exactly how they want it, as iebaltab simply cannot support all flavors there is out there. See more in helpfile.
New command: iedorep. This is a beta-release meaning that this command is only released for testing. Major changes without backward compatibility are likely. The command tests for stability in randomization. See more in helpfile.
In addition to many small fixes such as typos in display outputs and typos in help files.
Smaller update providing updates to the following issues: #225, #226, #229, #237, #263
We have released a new package, iefieldkit, with commands that address common taks and issues of data collection. ieduplicates and iecompdup were transferred to iefieldkit.
We will keep developing commands for data management and analysis in ietoolkit.
In v6.0 a bug was discovered and reported in issue #171. This bug did NOT cause incorrect results but was still classified as a major bug as it caused the command iebaltab to crash if the option weights was used. For all major bugs we always solve the bug and publish the a new version of ietoolkit as quickly as possible.
ieddtab
ieduplicates
iegraph
Additionally, a lot of proofreading of help files and error messages in the code.
iebaltab
ietoolkit: New command that returns information on the version of ietoolkit installed. This is a fix to issue #124.
iegitaddmd: Added option to use a customized placeholder file. This is a fix to issue #118.
iematch: Added option to cap the number of matches to each target observation. This is a fix to issue #112.
iebaltab: added option stdev to helpfile. This is a fix to issue #122.
iematch
replace option that saves new matches over others already created by the command, allowing users to run the command multiple times from the console. This is a fix to issue #111