Jacob,
You are right you need Stata manuals, specially Programming which should
be close to you every time :-) I do not have that introductory book, but
statalist could provide a lot of answers, ones you learn by trial and
error.
I believe that statalist is a good source for learning about
simulations. Even that -simulate- and its help solve almost any kind of
problem in that "field".
I do not know what do you want to do in Stata, but I use to teach
programming in Stata showing the code of spearman, at the very end of
that code there is spearman2. If you understand each line of that
sub-program you are more close to understand ado programming.
David's suggestion is also fair.
Rodrigo.
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De: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de David Airey
Enviado el: Viernes, 18 de Abril de 2008 06:20 p.m.
Para: [email protected]
Asunto: Re: st: RE: seeking text that explains how to program
.
Take the programming net courses.
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On Apr 18, 2008, at 5:13 PM, "Martin Weiss"
<[email protected] > 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: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jacob
> Wegelin
> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:09 AM
> To: [email protected]
> 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
>
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