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Stas said
Kit, any particular reason you did this Mata way as opposed to ado-way?
and illustrated how it could have all been done with ado-file code.
Quite so. There is not likely to be a speed improvement from Mata in
this instance as the I/O load of this routine is probably 99.999% of
CPU cycles used. But I just find doing it with Mata cleaner and more
modular, as well as more reusable. If you want to look at some elegant
file-handling Mata code, viewsource adoupdate.ado.
Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
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An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata | http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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