Speaking Stata: How to repeat yourself without going mad

Nicholas Cox

Stata Journal, 2001, vol. 1, issue 1, 86-97

Abstract: This column will focus on how to improve your fluency in Stata. Over the next issues we will look at Stata problems of intermediate size which turn out to be soluble with a few command lines. As an introduction, systematic ways of repeating the same or similar operations are surveyed to give one overview of the territory to be covered. Copyright 2001 by Stata Corporation.

Keywords: append; by; collapse; contract; do-files; egen; for; foreach; forvalues; log files; merge; naming conventions; programs; repetition; reshape; statsby; subset or group structure; tabulations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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