Details about Roger Benedict Newson

Homepage:	http://rogernewsonresources.org.uk/
Phone:	+44 (0)20 7594 2784
Postal address:	Department of Primary Care and Public Health Imperial College London 319 The Reynolds Building St. Dunstan's Road London W6 8RP United Kingdom
Workplace:	Wolfson Instutute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London

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Working Papers

2024

1. Balance and variance inflation checks for completeness-propensity weights
   UK Stata Conference 2024, Stata Users Group

2023

2. Customized Markdown and.docx tables using listtab and docxtab
   UK Stata Conference 2023, Stata Users Group

2022

3. Resultssets in resultsframes in Stata 16-plus
   London Stata Conference 2022, Stata Users Group

2021

4. Ridits right, left, center, native and foreign
   London Stata Conference 2021, Stata Users Group

2020

5. From datasets to metadatasets in Stata
   London Stata Conference 2020, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

2019

6. Bland–Altman plots, rank parameters, and calibration ridit splines
   London Stata Conference 2019, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

2018

7. A fleet of packages for inputting United Kingdom primary care data
   London Stata Conference 2018, Stata Users Group

2017

8. Ridit splines with applications to propensity weighting
   United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2017, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

2016

9. The role of Somers's D in propensity modeling
   United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2016, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

2015

10. Somers' D: A common currency for associations
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2015, Stata Users Group View citations (2)

2014

11. Easy-to-use packages for estimating rank and spline parameters
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2014, Stata Users Group View citations (3)

2013

12. Creating factor variables in resultssets and other datasets
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2013, Stata Users Group View citations (2)

2012

13. Scenario comparisons: How much good can we do?
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2012, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

2011

14. Sensible parameters for polynomials and other splines
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2011, Stata Users Group View citations (2)

2010

15. Post-parmest peripherals: fvregen, invcise, and qqvalue
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2010, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

2009

16. Homoskedastic adjustment inflation factors in model selection
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2009, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

2008

17. parmest and extensions
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2008, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

2007

18. Robust confidence intervals for Hodges–Lehmann median difference
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2007, Stata Users Group

2006

19. On the central role of Somers' D
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2006, Stata Users Group
20. Resultssets, resultsspreadsheets, and resultsplots in Stata
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2006, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

2005

21. Generalized confidence interval plots using commands or dialogs
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2005, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

2004

22. From datasets to resultssets in Stata
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2004, Stata Users Group View citations (3)

2003

23. Multiple test procedures and smile plots
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2003, Stata Users Group View citations (14)
    See also Journal Article Multiple-test procedures and smile plots, Stata Journal, StataCorp LLC (2003) View citations (17) (2003)

2002

24. Creating plots and tables of estimation results using parmest and friends
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2002, Stata Users Group

2001

25. Splines with parameters that can be explained in words to non-mathematicians
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2001, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Robit regression in Stata
   Stata Journal, 2023, 23, (3), 658-682 View citations (7)

2022

2. Stata tip 146: Using margins after a Poisson regression model to estimate the number of events prevented by an intervention
   Stata Journal, 2022, 22, (2), 460-464
3. Stata tip 147: Porting downloaded packages between machines
   Stata Journal, 2022, 22, (4), 996-997

2017

4. Stata tip 127: Use capture noisily groups
   Stata Journal, 2017, 17, (2), 511-514

2013

5. Attributable and unattributable risks and fractions and other scenario comparisons
   Stata Journal, 2013, 13, (4), 672-698 View citations (10)
6. Bonferroni and Holm approximations for Sidak and Holland–Copenhaver q-values
   Stata Journal, 2013, 13, (2), 379-381

2012

7. From resultssets to resultstables in Stata
   Stata Journal, 2012, 12, (2), 191–213 View citations (3)
8. Sensible parameters for univariate and multivariate splines
   Stata Journal, 2012, 12, (3), 479-504 View citations (14)

2010

9. Comparing the predictive powers of survival models using Harrell’s C or Somers’ D
   Stata Journal, 2010, 10, (3), 339-358 View citations (6)
10. Frequentist q-values for multiple-test procedures
    Stata Journal, 2010, 10, (4), 568-584 View citations (21)

2006

11. Confidence intervals for rank statistics: Percentile slopes, differences, and ratios
    Stata Journal, 2006, 6, (4), 497-520 View citations (26)
12. Confidence intervals for rank statistics: Somers' D and extensions
    Stata Journal, 2006, 6, (3), 309-334 View citations (31)

2005

13. Efficient Calculation of Jackknife Confidence Intervals for Rank Statistics
    Journal of Statistical Software, 2005, 015, (i01) View citations (2)
14. Review of Generalized Latent Variable Modeling by Skrondal and Rabe-Hesketh
    Stata Journal, 2005, 5, (1), 130-133 View citations (1)

2004

15. Generalized power calculations for generalized linear models and more
    Stata Journal, 2004, 4, (4), 379-401 View citations (4)
16. Stata tip 13: generate and replace use the current sort order
    Stata Journal, 2004, 4, (4), 484-485 View citations (1)
17. Stata tip 5: Ensuring programs preserve dataset sort order
    Stata Journal, 2004, 4, (1), 94 View citations (1)

2003

18. Confidence intervals and p-values for delivery to the end user
    Stata Journal, 2003, 3, (3), 245-269 View citations (16)
19. Multiple-test procedures and smile plots
    Stata Journal, 2003, 3, (2), 109-132 View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper Multiple test procedures and smile plots, United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2003 (2003) View citations (14) (2003)
20. Stata tip 1: The eform() option of regress
    Stata Journal, 2003, 3, (4), 445

2002

21. Parameters behind "nonparametric" statistics: Kendall's tau,Somers' D and median differences
    Stata Journal, 2002, 2, (1), 45-64 View citations (31)

2001

22. B-splines and splines parameterized by their values at reference points on the x-axis
    Stata Technical Bulletin, 2001, 10, (57) View citations (13)
23. Review of Generalized Linear Models and Extensions by Hardin and Hilbe
    Stata Journal, 2001, 1, (1), 98-100 View citations (3)
24. Robust confidence intervals for median and other percentile differences between two groups
    Stata Technical Bulletin, 2001, 10, (58) View citations (1)
25. Update to Somersd
    Stata Technical Bulletin, 2001, 10, (58)
    Also in Stata Technical Bulletin, 2001, 10, (57) (2001)
    Stata Technical Bulletin, 2001, 10, (61) (2001)
26. Update to a program for saving a model fit as a dataset
    Stata Technical Bulletin, 2001, 10, (58)
27. somersd-Confidence intervals for nonparametric statistics and their differences
    Stata Technical Bulletin, 2001, 10, (55) View citations (3)

2000

28. A program for saving a model fit as a dataset
    Stata Technical Bulletin, 2000, 9, (49) View citations (2)
29. rglm - Robust variance estimates for generalized linear models
    Stata Technical Bulletin, 2000, 9, (50)

Software Items

2025

1. XFRAMEAPPEND: Stata module to append data frames to the end of the current data frame
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2024

2. EXPGEN: Stata module to duplicate observations sorted in original order with generated variables
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
3. POLYSPLINE: Stata module to generate sensible bases for polynomials and other splines
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
4. VALLABFRAME: Stata module to convert a list of value labels to variables in a new data frame
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
5. XCONTRACT: Stata module to make a data set of frequencies and percents on disk or in memory
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2023

6. DESCSAVE: Stata module to export data set and machine-readable codebook
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
7. DOCXTAB: Stata module to list variables to a Word table with head or foot rows from characteristics
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
8. FACTMERG: Stata module to merge a list of factors to create string variables
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
9. LTOP: Stata module to divide a dataset list into pages without splitting internal by-groups
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
10. PUNAFCC: Stata module to compute population attributable fractions for case-control and survival studies
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
11. XCOLLAPSE: Stata module to make data set of summary statistics on disk or in memory
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2022

12. BMJCIP: Stata module to format confidence intervals and P-values for medical journals
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
13. BSPLINE: Stata modules to compute B-splines parameterized by their values at reference points
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (2)
14. IPWBREG: Stata module to compute inverse propensity weights from Bernoulli regression
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
15. PARMEST: Stata module to create new data set with one observation per parameter of most recent model
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
16. ROBIT: Stata module to estimate robit regression for binary outcomes
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
17. SDECODE: Stata module to decode a numeric variable into a string variable
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
18. STCMD: Stata module to execute StatTransfer command from within Stata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
19. XLINK: Stata module to provide extra link functions for use with glm
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2021

20. DOLOG: Stata modules to execute commands from a file with logging
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
    Also in Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics (2021)
21. DOTEX: Stata module to generate TeX log from do-file
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
22. ECLPLOT: Stata module to generate estimates and confidence limits plots
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
23. LISTTAB: Stata module to list variables as rows of a TeX, HTML or word processor table
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
    Also in Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics (2009) View citations (1)
24. SRSLOGIT: Stata module to perform Logit regression with secondary ridit splines
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
25. SSCPAX: Stata module to describe, install, or uninstall a list of SSC packages
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
26. SYSPORT: Stata module to zip system directories for porting to another machine
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
27. WHICHLIST: Stata module to input list of package file items and output lists of present and absent items
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
28. WRIDIT: Stata module to generate weighted ridits
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2020

29. ADDINBY: Stata module to add in data from a disk dataset using a foreign key
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
30. DESCGEN: Stata module to add Stata dataset attribute variables to a xdir resultsset
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
31. DTASTAMP: Stata module to store current date and time in dataset characteristics
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
32. FACTEXT: Stata module to extract factor values from a label variable created by parmest
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
33. FVREGEN: Stata module to regenerate factor variables in a parmest output dataset
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
34. INVDESC: Stata module to change variable attributes using a describe or descsave resultsset
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
35. KMEST: Stata module to compute Kaplan-Meier survival probabilities as estimation results
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
36. OSGEN: Stata module to add Python os_stat() file attributes to a xdir resultsset
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
37. PREDSURV: Stata module to compute predicted survival to a specified time after streg
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
38. QQVALUE: Stata module to generate quasi-q-values by inverting multiple-test procedures
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
39. RCENTILE: Stata module to compute robust confidence intervals for percentiles
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
40. SCSOMERSD: Stata module to compute rank statistics for scenario comparisons
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
41. SOMERSD: Stata module to calculate Kendall's tau-a, Somers' D and median differences
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
42. VALLABSAVE: Stata module to save and load label-only Stata datasets
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
43. XAUTO: Stata module to input an extended version of the auto data
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
44. XDIR: Stata module to create a resultsset with one observation per file in a directory
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
45. XSVMAT: Stata module to convert a matrix to variables in an output dataset
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2019

46. CPRDENTTYPE: Stata module to convert CPRD entity string data of any enttype to numeric
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
47. CPRDHESAEUTIL: Stata module to input CPRD HES A&E linkage datasets into Stata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
48. CPRDHESOPUTIL: Stata module to input CPRD HES/OP linkage datasets into Stata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
49. CPRDHESUTIL: Stata module for inputting HES-linkage datasets into Stata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
50. CPRDLSOAUTIL: Stata module to input CPRD LSOA-linkage datasets into Stata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
51. CPRDONSUTIL: Stata module to input CPRD ONS-linkage datasets into Stata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
52. CPRDUTIL: Stata module for inputting CPRD datasets into Stata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2018

53. CPRDLINKUTIL: Stata module for inputting CPRD linkage-source datasets into Stata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
54. ESETRAN: Stata module to transform estimates and standard errors in parmest resultssets
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
55. HTMLUTIL: Stata module to provide utilities for writing Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
56. INVCISE: Stata module to compute standard errors using the inverse confidence interval method
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
57. JFORMAT: Stata module to justify formats for a list of variables
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
58. LABLIST: Stata module to list value labels (if present) for one or more variables
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
59. LASTUPTO: Stata module to collapse a dataset to have 1 observation for each of a list of X-values
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
60. NORMALBVR: Stata module to generate Normal bivariate ridits
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
61. NORMALRIR: Stata module to calculate ridits of inverse ridits between Normal populations
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
62. VALLABDEF: Stata module to define value labels from label name, value and label variables
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2017

63. ADODEV: Stata module to reorder ado-path for developers and other independent-minded users
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
64. ADOSTORE: Stata module to store and restore the current ado-path
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
65. CPRDCRIBS: Stata module providing template do-files for inputting CPRD datasets into Stata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
66. HTMLTIT: Stata module to generate a document title variable for a HTML filename variable
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
67. INTEXT: Stata module to read text files into string variables
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
68. RTFUTIL: Stata module to provide utilities for writing Rich Text Format (RTF) files
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
69. SENSPEC: Stata module to compute sensitivity and specificity results saved in generated variables
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
70. TEXTPAD: Stata module to call TextPad to edit a file
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2016

71. CPRDENTUTIL: Stata module to convert CPRD entity data variables to numeric variables
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
72. LINCOMEST: Stata module to generate linear combinations of estimators saved as estimation results
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
73. LINUXLSD1: Stata module to create a dataset of file records from the output of a Linux ls -d1 command
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
74. QRISK2CMD: Stata module to run QRISK2 from within Stata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
75. REGAXIS: Stata module to make regular linear and logarithmic axis scales, ranges and tick lists
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
76. RSOURCE: Stata module to run R from inside Stata using an R source file
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
77. XGLM: Stata module to extend glm
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2015

78. MARGLMEAN: Stata module to compute marginal log means from regression models
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
79. MARGPREV: Stata module to compute marginal prevalences from binary regression models
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
80. MSDIRB: Stata module to create a dataset of file names from the output of a MS-DOS dir/b command (Windows only)
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
81. PUNAF: Stata module to compute population attributable fractions for cohort studies
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
82. REGPAR: Stata module to compute population attributable risks from binary regression models
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
83. SCENTTEST: Stata module to compute scenario arithmetic means and their difference
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2014

84. KEYBY: Stata module to key the dataset by a variable list
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
85. TFINSERT: Stata module to insert text into an open text file
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2013

86. BPMEDIAN: Stata module to compute Bonett-Price confidence intervals for medians and their contrasts
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
87. HAIF: Stata module to compute Homoskedastic Adjustment Inflation Factors for model selection
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
88. INSINGAP: Stata module to insert a single gap observation at the top of each by-group
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
89. PARMHET: Stata module to produce heterogeneity tests in parmest resultssets
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
90. SENCODE: Stata module to encode a string variable non-alphanumerically into a numeric variable
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2012

91. CHARDEF: Stata module to assign values to a characteristic of a list of variables
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
92. DSWEIGHT: Stata module to generate direct standardization weights
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
93. GSGROUP: Stata module to create a group variable and optionally an output dataset for a gsort key
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
94. INGAP: Stata module to insert gap observations into a data set before output by listtex
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
95. POWERCAL: Stata module to perform general power and sample size calculations
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
96. SCHEME_RBN1MONO: Stata module to provide minimal monochrome graphics schemes
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (2)
97. SMILEPLOT: Stata module to create plots for use with multiple significance tests
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
98. XREWIDE: Stata module to extend reshape wide command
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2011

99. FVPREVAR: Stata module to extend fvrevar generating permanent result variables
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
100. PARMPARSE: Stata module to parse a parameter name variable in a parmest resultsset
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
101. PRODVARS: Stata module to create product variables for two lists of input variables
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2010

102. CREPLACE: Stata module to exchange values cyclically between variables
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2009

103. CGROUP: Stata module to group contiguous observations with identical values of a varlist
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
104. ESTPARM: Stata module to save results from a parmest resultsset and test equality
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
105. VARLABDEF: Stata module to define a value label with values corresponding to variables
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
106. XGROUP: Stata module to create a grouping variable with key values in an output dataset
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2008

107. BYNOTE: Stata module to create a note with a user-specified format for use with the by option
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
108. XDATELIST: Stata module to create ascending numeric lists of dates
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2007

109. DSCONCAT: Stata module to concatenate a list of Stata data files into memory
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
110. FACTREF: Stata module to insert new observations with reference values for factors
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
111. INCCAT: Stata module to concatenate one or more input files to an output file inserting additional input files
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2006

112. SUBSAVE: Stata module to save a subset of the dataset in memory to a disk file
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2004

113. HARMBY: Stata module to harmonize values of variables within by-groups
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2003

114. BYGAP: Stata module to insert by-gap observation at the start of each by-group
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2002

115. EXPLIST: Stata module to generate an exponentially-spaced list of numbers
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
116. GPHEPSSJ: Stata module to translate Stata graph files to.eps as used for The Stata Journal
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
117. QROWNAME: Stata module to extract lists of quoted row and column names from a matrix
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
118. STRDATE: Stata module to replace string date variables with numeric date variables with the same names
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2001

119. GPRESET: Stata module to reset preferences for a custom graphics scheme to their original values
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2000

120. CIFORM: Stata module to format confidence interval for tables in documents
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

1998

121. CCWEIGHT: Stata module to generate inverse sampling probability weights
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
122. RGLM: Stata module to estimate robust generalized linear models
     Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics