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| Gabriel | Has it been two years already? Holy moly, Stata 12 looks awesome. The headline feature is structural equation modeling. It comes with a graphic model builder, which even an “only scripting is replicable” zealot like me can appreciate as it helps you learn complicated command syntax. (I feel the same way about graphs). […] Continue reading Christmas in July 1. Baum, Schaffer, and Stillman answer the question “What is Stata, and why should it be the package of choice for applied econometric research?” in “Using Stata for Applied Research: Reviewing its Capabilities”. 2. UCLA’s Stata resources and UCLA’s Stata class notes with accompanying videos. Learning Stata made easier… 3. This site by German Rodriguez provides [...] Continue reading Links: Introduction to Stata A problem when working on one and the same project on different platforms (here: Windows and Mac/OS X) is that path-names differ. There are two straightforward solutions to this: 1) When defining a number of different path (e.g. one path where data is stored, one where results/output is stored), it is handy to define the paths […] Continue reading Preamble when switching between OS X and Windows 
Source: http://xkcd.com/208/ Converting string to numeric variables is easy with -destring- (-help destring-). But when -destring- returns “income contains nonnumeric characters; no generate,” it is an unwelcome complication. This tells you that there is a nonnumeric character in a variable that you expect to be all numeric, but it does not tell you what the [...] Continue reading -destring- complication |
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