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From | Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: Upcoming NetCourses |
Date | Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:45:20 +0000 (GMT) |
--- On Wed, 8/9/10, Mark Nichols wrote: > I have examined the material and in my opinion not really > worth your time or money. That has not been my experience. I took the introduction to Stata programming a couple of years ago. I found that there were two main advantages of these courses: 1) it shaped the way I set up an analysis, organize my .do-files, avoid certain practices that would make it hard to reproduce my analysis, etc. 2) Lots and lots and lots of neat little tricks that make my (Stata) live so much easier. > If you can't or don't like to figure out things on your > own, then the netcourses might be just the thing for you. The problem with figuring things out on your own is that that way you can easily get stuck with some bad habits. Learning from other people who have been where you are now is so much more productive. If you want to learn on your own, you can now also aquire good habits and tricks from this book: J. Scott Long (2009) "The Workflow of Data Analysis Using Stata". College Station, TX: Stata Press. <http://stata-press.com/books/wdaus.html> Hope this helps, Maarten -------------------------- Maarten L. Buis Institut fuer Soziologie Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstrasse 36 72074 Tuebingen Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl -------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/