Re: st: New to Stata -Beginners books

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 12:45 09/08/2004, samani.Lamabadusuriya  wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to Stata, (formally a dedicated SAS user), I would really
> appreciate it if you could let me know some good links/books/material on how
> to learn Stata really quickly.  Tutorial type stuff would be ideal.
> Many Thanks
> Sam
> PS I have looked into web based courses from Stata, however, they don't
> start till September, I need to get started immediately.
Useful resources for SAS users converting to Stata are at

http://www.cpc.unc.edu/services/computer/presentations/statatutorial

and at

http://www.cpc.unc.edu/services/computer/presentations/sas_to_stata

THese were produced by Phil Bardsley and Dan Blanchette and described at 
the 2003 North Amarican Stata User Group (NASUG) meeting in 1993, whose 
page is at

http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/asug03.html


You might also like to refer to my presentation and handout "From datasets 
to resultssets in Stata" at the UK Stata User Meeting, whose page is at

http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/usug04.html

and which describes Stata resultssets, which are the nearest Stata 
equivalent to SAS output data sets.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


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