st: Teaching Data Mining Using STATA

["R.B. Lenin" <rblenin@gmail.com>]

Dear Statatlist Users,

I am planning to offer a course on Data Mining for graduate students. The topics include Exploring Data, Classification, Association, Clustering, and Anomaly Detection (optional: Text Mining and Social Network Analysis - if time permits).

I am already offering a course to these students on Regression Analysis using STATA. I also offered a course to these students on Statistical Inference using R. The students preferred STATA over R.

My question: Is STATA suitable for Data Mining (for the above topics) when compared to R? If so, where can I find more references or resources (like ado files) on STATA for Data Mining.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
-Lenin.
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