Re: st: Rather blue screen than this :(

[Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Airey, David C
<david.airey@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> From his posts, I'm guessing Sergiy Radyakin is on the sophisticated end of computer programming savvy, so why the trip up on Mata views (if this is the case)?

Saying 'bug' in statalist is like saying 'bomb' in the airport. You
don't want to do it until you are 100% sure. I am currently at 97.89%
sure. But I've also been wrong before. So taking caution now.
http://www.ask.com/answers/100278441/is-it-true-that-you-can-t-say-the-word-bomb-at-the-airport-if-it-is-why

Already after sending my email another real-life analogy:
if you delete your account from Gmail, would Gmail deliver the mail
addressed to you to the next guy by alphabet? (Email-addresse==view,
Mailbox=data) Or will it say "invalid recepient"? (we do know it will
say: 503, right?)

Best, Sergiy





>
> Currently, the sources for learning Mata are:
>
> 1. Online help
>
> 2. Mata manual (seems to duplicate the online help and add a reference guide)
>
> 3. Baum's Intro to Stata Programming (Chapter 13-14, requires buying):
>
>         http://www.stata-press.com/books/introduction-stata-programming/
>
> 4. Stata journal Mata Matters column
>
>         http://www.stata-journal.com/sjsearch.html?choice=keyword&q=mata+matters)
>
> 5. Statalist
>
> 6. viewsource
>
> Is the Mata documentation enough? Baum's book (link below) was enough for me for the very basics, but I've not used Mata extensively.
>
> *
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> *   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
> *   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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