In this article, I discuss the method of relative distribution analysis and present Stata software implementing various elements methodology. The is ranks that outcomes from one take on in another distribution. methodology can be used, for example, to compare wages between men women. presented software, reldist, estimates cumulative density, as well polarization, divergence, other summary measu...

This paper uses data from the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses to study the impacts of immigration on local housing markets. Specifically, I use matched tract-level data from the two Censuses to study the effects of changes in the number of immigrants on rental prices in a tract. Without other controls, the results indicate that tracts with larger inflows of immigrants between 1990 and 2000 had...

Software and Books: Reviews and Previews 2 Nathaniel Beck: Stata 8 A First Look From a Personal Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bradford S. Jones: Review of Andrew Gelman and Deborah Nolan’s Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Joshua D. Clinton: Review of Andrew Gelman, John Carlin, Hal Stern and Donald Rubin’s Bayesian Data Analysis . . . . . . . 6 Jack B...

This paper describes an update of the ellip command for graphing confidence ellipses in Stata 8. Two of the most notable new features are the option to graph confidence ellipses around variable means and the ability to add inscribed lines. These features allow a geometric characterization of linear regression with unequal error variances, as in McCartin (2003).

Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (STATs) are transcription factors which lie at the end of cytokine and growth signal transduction pathways. Dictyostelium Dd-STATa is a functional homologue of metazoan STATs. It is activated by cAMP and, at the slug stage, it translocates into the nuclei of the tip cells, which are a subset of the anterior, prestalk A (pstA) cells. Here we sea...