NICEDATES: Stata module for nice dates, especially for time series graphs

Nicholas Cox

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: nicedates shows a numlist of "nice" dates as determined by _tsnatscale for timevar, which is normally a time variable. nicedates examines the display format of timevar to determine whether it includes daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly dates. If in doubt, the guess will be yearly, which implies that nicedates will give sensible answers with numeric variables other than dates. The list of nice dates is accessible after nicedates as r(dates).

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8.1
Keywords: graphics; time series; dates; labels; nice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-09-10
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install nicedates". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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