Michael Carney
> If I have two columns, one for the percentage of a year for
> which an option is good and another column for the corresponging
> price, how can I manipulate the
> data to create a "change in price / change in time" column?
> any help would be appreciated.
Are you asking for a formula or algorithm?
Or do you have some formula or algorithm?
If so, please tell us what it is.
> also, does anyone know of any stata help manuals/resources
> that deal with how
> to use stata for primarily financial/economic data?
Books on Stata
http://www.stata.com/bookstore/statabooks.html
Resources
http://www.stata.com/links/resources1.html
If anybody knows anything not on these lists,
please tell Stata Corp.
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