distrate in Stata17

[Mark Hibino]

I cannot run "distrate" in Stata 17 with the following error message.
"command _crccip is unrecognized"

I know "_crccip" was replaced with other command.

Is there any way I can run "distrate" in Stata 17?

[William Lisowski]

Following the guidance given by Rafal Raciborski (StataCorp) in the Statalist post at

https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...34#post1397934

you can create your own _crccip command that produces the same results.

capture program drop _crccip
program define _crccip, rclass
    args k level
    local alpha = (100-`level')/200
    return scalar upper = invpoisson(`k',`alpha')
    return scalar lower = cond(`k'==0, 0,invpoisson(`k'-1,1-`alpha'))
end

If you add this code to your do-file before it runs distrate your problem will be resolved, I believe.

Do not put this code within a loop or any other block of code that ends with a "}" or "end". Many Stata users would put it near the top of their do-file.

Reproducing the examples in the post gives results identical to those shown from the original _crccip in that post.

. _crccip 2 95

. return list

scalars:
              r(lower) =  .2422092785439654
              r(upper) =  7.224687667723954

. _crccip 0 95

. return list

scalars:
              r(lower) =  0
              r(upper) =  3.68887945411394

.

[Mark Hibino]

Thank you, William. Your codes worked perfectly! Now I can graduate my old-version Stata!

[Bjarte Aagnes]

keep Stata and community-contributed packages updated. see -help update- and -help adoupdate-

current distrate -ssc desc distrate- Distribution-Date: 20170928 does not depend on _crccip.

[William Lisowski]

Note that adoupdate will not help if you have installed the version of distrate from the Stata Journal, whose listing st0276_1 precedes the listing of distrate from SSC in the output of search distrate. That is not an uncommon problem with packages installed from SJ - that is, the user may insall the older package without seeing the newer version, and search makes no connection between the SJ and SSC versions, so having installed the SJ version the user will not know there is a later version in SSC.

What is required to replace the SJ version with the SSC version is

ssc install distrate, replace