Re: st: Mata - what comes after -st_addvar-?

["Raphael Fraser" <raphael.fraser@gmail.com>]

Great!
I think many Stata users aren't even aware of what Mata is. I only
start using it by accident when I wanted to calculate the pooled
sample covariance matrix for a data set of males and females. Since
then I can barely program without this easy to use and powerful tool.

On 9/6/06, William Gould, Stata <wgould@stata.com> wrote:
> Raphael Fraser <raphael.fraser@gmail.com> asked,
>
> > Any plans for a Mata netcourse in the future?
>
> Yes, but not as soon as you would like.  Writing it has been on my to-do list
> and I'm still working on it.
>
> In the meantime, I highly recommend the "Mata Matters" column in the
> Stata Journal.  There have been four so far:
>
>       Translating Fortran
>              SJ 5(3), 3rd quarter 2005, 421-441
>
>       Using views onto date
>              SJ 5(4), 4th quarter 2005, 567-573
>
>       Creating new variables (Sounds boring, isn't)
>              SJ 6(1), 1st quarter 2006, 112-123
>
>       Interactive use
>              SJ 6(3), 3rd quarter 2006, 387-396
>
> That's 49 pages of recommended reading.
>
> The most recent column could use a better title.  Mata is, obviously, a
> programming language.  The most recent column, however, is about using Mata
> interactively to avoid writing programs and ado-files.
>
> -- Bill
> wgould@stata.com
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