Don't forget the NetCourses: http://www.stata.com/info/products/netcourse/
--- Richard Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 08:18 PM 2/24/2006, Neil Shephard wrote:
> >On 2/25/06, Sriram Narayanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > This may be a silly thing. I need to be able to write
> > > a few programs to do data manipulation and construct
> > > dates by grabbing letters from a string of numbers. I
> > > can do this in excel. Can anyone give me pointers to a
> > > few stata resources/books that can help me with
> > > programs in stata.
> >
> >Well you could start with the Users Manual and the Programming Manual,
> >and even the Data Management Manual (see
> >http://www.stata.com/manuals/).
>
> It might not apply for this specific problem, but I found Stata's
> Maximum Likelihood book extremely useful:
>
> http://www.stata.com/bookstore/mle.html
>
> You can also learn a lot just by looking at the code for various
> programs. Sometimes an existing program can be tweaked to do what you want.
>
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between 1/2/2006 and 31/3/2006 I will be
visiting the UCLA, during this time the
best way to reach me is by email
Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting adress:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z214
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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