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/).
An excllent series of articles by Nick Cox entitled "Speaking Stata"
exists in the Stata Journal (see http://www.stata-journal.com/) that
provide lucid insights into the intricacies of programming in Stata
and the ways in which to get things done.
The statalist archives in and of themselves contain innumerable
details of how to solve various programming problems in Stata.
HTH's
Neil
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