Archives for the Date November 26th, 2008

Looping across observations

People who stress that you very seldom have to do this in Stata are right. That's why I always forget how it's done. So here, for my reference and yours: Today I looked at a table in .rtf format. It had test scores for a bunch of students in Poli Sci at the University of [...]

Arguments

In an older post I wrote about the program capability in Stata. One thing I didn't say and I find increasingly useful these days is that you can pass arguments to programs. Packaging a set of commands inside a program, to be read once and then invoked as many times as they are needed, is [...]