Re: st: Re: do-file hygeine

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

You are welcome! I am very much a beginner myself in this area, and I 
sincerely hope that Kit`s book will help me improve...

What I have learned, though, is that you must make sure you still understand 
what you did half a year ago when that report comes back where the referee 
says that you should really have included another year in your panel. A good 
way to do that is to have your do-files instruct Stata to keep both 
a-log-file, recording all screen output, and a command log. From my 
experience, many users do not know about -cmdlog-s, and if they do, they 
misunderstand the mechanism that allows simultaneous -log-ging 
and -cmdlog-ging. The trick is that there is a handle (the -name- option) 
which is distinct from the -filename-...

HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael McCulloch" <mm@pinest.org>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: st: Re: do-file hygeine



> Just what I was looking for. Thanks Martin!
>
> > Sure you did not miss this recent thread:
> > http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-09/msg00749.html
> >
> > HTH
> > Martin _______________________
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael McCulloch" <mm@pinest.org>
> > To: "Statalist" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 8:08 PM
> > Subject: st: do-file hygeine
> >
> > > Dear members of Statalist,
> > > Using Stata has helped me realize an innate and compulsive need for 
> > > attention to detail. When it comes to good research practices in general, 
> > > I've learned good habits from my teachers and from this paper:
> > >
> > > Schreier AA, Wilson K, Resnik D. Academic research record-keeping: best 
> > > practices for individuals, group leaders, and institutions. Acad Med 
> > > 2006;81(1):42-7.
> > >
> > > However, when it comes to Stata in particular, I'm feeling that learning 
> > > structured approaches from others would be useful. I'd appreciate any 
> > > pointers toward good do-file hygeine, i.e. management practices to 
> > > maximize good record keeping, with resulting least likelihood of 
> > > overlooking important details.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Best wishes,
> > > Michael McCulloch
> > >
> > >
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