Two years ago, three economists at the World Bank -- Michael Lokshin, Zurab Sajaia and Sergiy Radyakin -- cooked up ADePT. That, to my knowledge, was the first successful attempt to use Stata for leveraging econometric research across the world.
Think of it this way: a star academic economist builds a theoretical model that explains the [...]

Or so I thought.
I'm working on a cluster analysis project. There are multiple data sets, they are massive, and there are several variable subsets by which one could plausibly cluster the observations.
Agglomerative hierarchical clustering is the way to go when you don't have any notion of how many clusters there should be, but it is [...]

Ever since I moved to the US in 1996, I've been reading one Romanian daily newspaper or another, with titles changing as their web presence waxed and waned and as my own preferences shifted over time.
As it happens, a significant part of my livelihood has come lately from helping some eighty-odd American daily newspapers stay [...]

If you've got £900 to spare and an inclination to spend a lovely September week at the London School of Tropical Medicine, lucky you.
I'd appreciate a first-hand account if you go. StataCorp does what it can, but I'm sure the more the merrier. My own first attempt at contributing happened this May, when I spent [...]