Re: st: writing programs in stata

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 08:18 PM 2/24/2006, Neil Shephard wrote:
> On 2/25/06, Sriram Narayanan <ssriram74@yahoo.com> 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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