I'm not aware of the beginner listserve but I don't think that Statalist is
unfriendly to beginner questions -- especially ones that show that the
person has made some attempt to answer it on their own. I just checked the
Statalist archives and found that your recollections are a little off. I
see 4 questions posted by you in the past 2 months and 3 got replies,
sometimes several. Questions on coding of missing values, reclassifying a
variable into percentages, and testing multiple differences for svymean all
got responses. The one question without a response asked about 3 way
graphs. From that question, I didn't have a clear idea what you meant (what
would this graph look like?), so I didn't respond. I would guess that other
readers were similarly in the dark about what you wanted and so didn't reply
either.
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suzy" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:00 AM
Subject: st: does anyone have info on a Statalistserv for beginners?
> I am a recent Stata listserv user, a beginner (self-trained convert from
> SPSS) Stata user, and a nonstatistician. I do think that this listserv
> is a bit more "friendly" for more advanced Stata users who also have
> expertise in statistics and programming. I have asked a few questions -
> of which one has received a reply. I've asked these questions after
> using the help and search commands, and looking on-line - Stata faq, and
> other websites. I guess what I'd like to say is that everything is
> relative. My questions - compared to the majority of questions would be
> considered basic and probably inappropriate for this forum. On the
> other hand, I have enough knowledge of Stata to help those just
> starting out. I think maybe there should be more explicit information
> on the target audience this listserv supports.
>
> I have recently heard of a European Stata listserv for beginner Stata
> users. I'm wondering if anyone has information that they can pass along
> to those of us who do consider ourselves beginners and would like a
> place that the 'basic' Stata question can be asked and answered
> without too much angst.
>
> I'm happy to use Stata - a true convert, I'm happy to receive e-mail
> from this Statalist, and I immensely respect those of you who take so
> much of your time and effort to help with the majority of questions
> that are asked.
>
> If someone does know of the beginner Stata listserv, please pass it along.
> Respectfully,
> Suzy
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