Yet another partial exception: The text of the Mata and Graphics manuals
is pretty much the same as the on-line help.
Nick
[email protected]
Richard Williams
Also, there are some free samples online. Go to
http://www.stata.com/bookstore/docset.html
and then click on the docs you are interested in, e.g.
http://www.stata.com/bookstore/refset.html
On the latter page, you can get the manual's chapters on
* clogit - Conditional (fixed-effects) logistic regression
* exlogistic - Exact logistic regression
* mfx - Obtain marginal effects or elasticities after
estimation
* regress - Linear regression
* regress postestimation - Postestimation tools for regress
A lot of the other links from the first page I
gave will lead you to links for a manual's intro
chapters, which may help you to decide whether you want to buy the whole
thing.
I think the biggest advantages of the manuals
over the online help are (a) they usually teach
you a little bit about the statistics and
rationales involved, as opposed to just showing
syntax, and (b) the manuals have detailed
examples and explain the output a bit. You can't
become an expert on a method just by reading a
Stata chapter, but at least you can get a general
idea and then decide whether you want to learn more from there.
Eva Poen
>There is one exception, however: the reference manual for Stata 1.0,
>released in 1985, can be found online at
>http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sca/Stata1/default.htm.
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