Looking for Program U-CARE

[tjohnson]

Hello, I am using multistate analyses and would like to use Program U-CARE to test GOF. I have been unable to access the ftp:// (unable to locate page) website to download U-CARE. I was wondering if anyone is using this program and could provide me with the necessary files and user manual, or if there is another place to find the program. Thanks in advance for your help.

Thanks,
Tammi

[cooch]

Hello, I am using multistate analyses and would like to use Program U-CARE to test GOF. I have been unable to access the ftp:// (unable to locate page) website to download U-CARE. I was wondering if anyone is using this program and could provide me with the necessary files and user manual, or if there is another place to find the program. Thanks in advance for your help.

Thanks,
Tammi

Seems to be offline for the moment - while I have a version of U-CARE, I'm not sure how current it is. Moreoever, U-CARE requires a bunch of MATLAB files (.DLLs, and so forth), and I'm not exactly sure which ones I'd have to Zip up to get things to work.

In the interimm, though, try running the median c-hat approach (described in chapter 5). I've compared the results using median c-hat with U-CARE, and for 'well-behaved' data sets, the results are very similar.

[cooch]

I've packaged up the version of U-CARE that I have (v.2.xx), but I'm not sure how current it is (so caveat emptor): point your browser at

http://www.phidot.org/software/misc/u-care.exe

Note: the file is ~ 10 MB in size, so don't try downloading it via modem (unless you have nothing else to do with your computer for several hours).