Re: st: RE: seeking text that explains how to program

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

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Take the programming net courses.

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On Apr 18, 2008, at 5:13 PM, "Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss@uni-tuebingen.de 
> wrote:


> Join the club! I went through your pains a couple of months ago with  
> the
> full docu present, and still ended up screaming for help...
> There is a book forthcoming "An Introduction to Stata Programming"  
> from
> Stata Press. Other than that, it definitely helps to trace the  
> action on
> Statalist and experiment with the examples people sometimes provide.
> Specific questions are usually answered quickly on the list, so  
> posting
> definitely helps as well...
>
>
> Good luck,
> Martin Weiss
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jacob  
> Wegelin
> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:09 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: seeking text that explains how to program
>
> Am I correct in believing that neither the Web nor the help files is a
> substitute for the hard-copy Stata manuals?
>
> Beyond Christopher F. Baum's helpful SUGUK 2005 invited lecture, "A  
> little
> bit of Stata programming goes a long way", what text(s) or article 
> (s) or
> url(s) would be helpful for one who wishes to learn how to automate
> procedures in Stata, i.e., to write programs in Stata?
>
> For instance:
>
> I'm a raw beginner with Stata's "program" command and with Stata's
> programming power in general, and don't understand the syntax.
>
> The following help file: http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?program gives a
> tantalizing bit of information and then says
>
> See [U] 18 Programming Stata for a description of programs.
>
> See [P] trace for information on debugging programs.
>
> Neither of these is a link, which suggests that this information is  
> simply
> not available on the web or in the built-in Stata help files.
>
> Also, the help files for "local", for "postfile", and for some other
> commands appear to leave some questions unanswered. For instance, how
> exactly does one specify the types of variables in "postfile" so as  
> not to
> get an error? The help file appears to hint that the default type  
> for a
> variable is numeric, and that groups of variables with the same type  
> should
> be listed in parentheses:
>
> postfile `memhold' a b str20 c double(d e f) using "`results'"
>
> but it doesn't state this explicitly. Is there a book that explains  
> this all
> for beginners?
>
> Thanks for any info
>
> Jake
>
> Jacob A. Wegelin
> jwegelin@vcu.edu
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Biostatistics
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