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Re: st: Programming courses
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Programming courses
Date
Wed, 4 May 2011 17:27:16 +0100
Everyone's right -- for different meanings of the question.
If "programming" just is code for better understanding and use of
Stata, StataCorp's net courses and Kit Baum's book are all excellent
and would certainly help. And plenty of people have put up good
teaching materials. Alan's stuff looks like an excellent example.
If "programming" means "I want to write Stata programs", strict sense,
again the higher level StataCorp courses will help, and Kit's book
too.
That said, the best single resource is at your fingertips. Read [U]
again and again until you've internalised it all.
Nick
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Alan Neustadtl <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a the materials for an introductory course online that you
> might find useful.
>
> Start Stata on an internet connected computer and from the command
> line enter: net from http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~smilex3/stata.
>
> Then click on the link "SOCY498C" (Support material for
> SOCY498C/699C). You should see:
>
> PACKAGES you could -net describe-:
> read Reading Data.
> examine Examining Data.
> graphing Graphing Data.
> regression Regression Analysis.
> gotchas Things that can go wrong.
> by-egen by and egen language.
> macros Macros.
> merge Appending and merging data files.
> adjust Using the post-estimation command adjust.
>
> Just click on a link to download a pdf file with worked examples and
> accompanying Stata do files.
>
> One caution, because, I think, I store these files on a Unix based
> computer there is an issue if you try to "re-click" on a link (e.g.
> SOCY498C) and you need to reissue the -net from- command. Because of
> that I assign this command to a function key using a global macro.
> Here is what I use:
>
> global F7 net from http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~smilex3/stata;
>
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