NetCourseTM 152: Advanced Stata Programming
- Content:
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This course teaches you how to create and debug new commands that are
indistinguishable from the commands in Stata. It is assumed that you
know why and when to program and to some extent how. You will learn
how to parse both standard and nonstandard Stata syntax using the
intuitive syntax command, how to manage and process saved
results, how to process by groups, and more.
- Course leaders:
- Theresa Boswell, technical services representative at StataCorp
- Kevin Crow, technical services analyst at StataCorp
- Kerry Kammire, technical services representative at StataCorp
- Course length:
- 7 weeks (5 lectures)
- Dates:
- October 10–November 28, 2008
- Prerequisites:
- Stata 10, installed and working
- Course content of NetCourse 151 or equivalent knowledge
- Internet web browser, such as Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer, or Mozilla, installed and working
(course is platform independent)
- Price:
- $150.00
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Course content
Lecture 1: Parsing Stata syntax/Stata programming basics
- Review of Stata programming features you learned in NC151
- Parsing Stata syntax
- Parsing options
- Parsing complicated syntax
- Using subprograms
Lecture 2: Parsing Stata syntax, continued/Quotes, returned results, and subsamples
- Compound quotes for handling strings that may themselves contain quotes
- Temporary variables
- Using returned results from other programs
- Restricting a calculation to a subsample
- Putting together a complete program
Lecture 3: Using scalars and macros and introduction to low-level parsing
- Scalars
- Binary accuracy
- Accuracy of macros versus scalars
- Converting a program from macros to scalars
- Handling by() options
- Sorting
- Low-level parsing
- Programming immediate commands
- Parsing new variables
There is a week break between lectures 3 and 4 to
allow more time for those who may fall behind and to allow for more
discussion from the participants.
Lecture 4: Returning results and writing estimation commands
- Saved results
- What can be returned in r()?
- Referring to returned results in other programs
- Referring to returned results in the program that sets them
- Other types of returned values: s() and e()
- S-class returned values
- E-class returned results
- Writing postestimation commands
- Writing an estimation (e-class) command
- Writing estimation commands from first principles
- Writing estimation commands via maximum likelihood
Lecture 5: List processing, controlling program output, and naming conventions
- Restricting commands to the relevant subsample
- Which is better: marksample or mark?
- Programming by varlist
- Lists
- Stepping through list elements one by one
- Deleting elements from lists
- Adding elements to lists
- Macro vectors
- Parsing revisited: gettoken
- Quietly blocks
- The relation between capture and quietly
- capture blocks
- Naming conventions
- Program naming convention
- Calling convention
- Version control
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