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Teaching with self-made help files

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  • Christian Brzinsky-Fay

    (DPC Software)

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Teaching statistics using Stata in a scientific way should involve the usage of Stata programming language instead of only clicking single commands from the pull-down menus. Like in any other language, students very often make small spelling mistakes that cause error messages, which are frustrating at the beginning. The concentration on these formal issues often enough keeps them from intuitively understanding commands' constructive logic. In the presentation, I would like to show how teachers can make use of Stata's markup language (SMCL) in order to construct help files, where you can add executable Stata commands. Students are able to follow the commands' logic by simply clicking on them and get a better feeling of the command structure before they have to care about spelling issues. I will demonstrate the construction and the usage of such help files by showing examples of graph commands, which usually have a lot of options, and the relatively new etable command, which is made for table export.

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Handle: RePEc:boc:carp26:13
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