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Fun and fluency with functions

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  • Nicholas Cox

    (Durham University)

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Functions in Stata range between those you know you want and those you don't know you need. The word "functions" is heavily overloaded in Stata; here the focus is on functions' strict sense, _variables, extended macro functions, and egen functions. Often Stata users in difficulty are seeking commands or imagining that they need to write programs, when a few lines of code using functions would crack their problem. In this talk, I will briefly give some general advice on using functions and in more detail discuss a variety of examples, with the aim of introducing something unappreciated but useful to almost everyone. Somehow or other, graphs and my own work will also be mentioned.

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  • Nicholas Cox, 2011. "Fun and fluency with functions," United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2011 21, Stata Users Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:usug11:21
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