On-site training
Advanced Stata Programming
Description
This one-day course will demonstrate ways to program new commands in
Stata, from simple procedural commands to more complex estimation
commands.
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Course topics
- Extending Stata
- From do-files to ado-files
- Background for ado-files
- Writing an ado-file
- Working with the syntax command
- Documenting a new command
- Writing your own help file
- Sharing programs and data
- Subroutines
- Programs in Stata
- Creating new commands
- Returning values from programs
- Adding features
- Cleaning up
- Testing
- Debugging
- Learning from Stata
- Programming estimation commands
- Programming your own estimation command
- Basic linear regression
- Standardizing and returning results
- Certification
- Postestimation commands
- Using Mata in programs
- What is Mata?
- Examples of using Mata with maximum likelihood
- Linear regression using Mata
- Programming a generalized linear model
- Additional features
Prerequisite
- A working knowledge of Stata and basic programming skills
Notes
This is a one-day course. All training courses generally run for eight hours per day and include morning and afternoon breaks and a lunch break. You can arrange a convenient schedule with your instructor and training coordinator.
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