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Stata 9 Programming Reference ManualCopyright 2005ISBN-10: 1-59718-000-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-59718-000-9 Pages: 450; paperback Price $45.00 |
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See a larger photo of the front cover Overview of the Stata 9 documentation Table of contents Subject table of contents (pdf) Introduction to programming manual (pdf) Subject and author index (pdf) Download the datasets used in this manual | |
| intro (pdf) | Introduction to programming manual |
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| break | Suppress Break key |
| byable | Make programs byable |
| capture | Capture return code |
| char | Characteristics |
| class | Class programming |
| class exit | Exit class member program and return result |
| classutil | Class programming utility |
| comments | Add comments to programs |
| confirm | Argument verification |
| continue | Break out of loops |
| creturn | Return c-class values |
| #delimit | Change delimiter |
| dialog programming | Dialog programming |
| discard | Drop automatically loaded programs |
| display | Display strings and values of scalar expressions |
| ereturn | Post the estimation results |
| error | Display generic error message and exit |
| estat programming | Controlling estat after user-written commands |
| _estimates | Manage estimation results |
| exit | Exit from a program or do-file |
| file | Read and write ASCII text and binary files |
| file formats .dta | Description of .dta file format |
| findfile | Find file in path |
| foreach | Loop over items |
| forvalues | Loop over consecutive values |
| gettoken | Low-level parsing |
| if | if programming command |
| levelsof | Levels of variable |
| macro | Macro definition and manipulation |
| macro lists | Manipulate lists |
| makecns | Constrained estimation |
| mark | Mark observations for inclusion |
| matlist | Display a matrix and control its format |
| matrix | Introduction to matrix commands |
| matrix accum | Form cross-product matrices |
| matrix define | Matrix definition, operators, and functions |
| matrix dissimilarity | Compute similarity or dissimilarity measures |
| matrix eigenvalues | Eigenvalues of nonsymmetric matrices |
| matrix get | Access system matrices |
| matrix mkmat | Convert variables to matrix and vice versa |
| matrix rownames | Name rows and columns |
| matrix score | Score data from coefficient vectors |
| matrix svd | Singular value decomposition |
| matrix symeigen | Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of symmetric matrices |
| matrix utility | List, rename, and drop matrices |
| more | Pause until key is pressed |
| numlist | Parse numeric lists |
| pause | Program debugging command |
| plugin | Load a plugin |
| postfile | Save results in Stata dataset |
| _predict | Obtain predictions, residuals, etc., after estimation programming command |
| preserve | Preserve and restore data |
| program | Define and manipulate programs |
| program properties | Properties of user-defined programs |
| quietly | Quietly and noisily perform Stata command |
| _return | Preserve saved results |
| return | Return saved results |
| _rmcoll | Remove collinear variables |
| rmsg | Return messages |
| _robust | Robust variance estimates |
| scalar | Scalar variables |
| serset | Create and manipulate sersets |
| sleep | Pause for a specified time |
| smcl | Stata Markup and Control Language |
| sortpreserve | Sort within programs |
| syntax | Parse Stata syntax |
| sysdir | Query and set system directories |
| tabdisp | Display tables |
| tokenize | Divide strings into tokens |
| trace | Debug Stata programs |
| unab | Unabbreviate variable list |
| unabcmd | Unabbreviate command name |
| version | Version control |
| viewsource | View source code |
| while | Looping |
| window programming | Programming menus and windows |
| Subject and author index (pdf) | |