<H2>From Chile, Latin America</H2>
<P>NetCourseTM 152: Advanced Stata Programming</P>
<H2>Course content </H2>
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<H3>Lecture 1: Parsing Stata syntax/Stata programming basics</H3>
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<LI>Review of Stata programming features you learned in NC151 </LI>
<LI>Parsing Stata syntax </LI>
<LI>Parsing options </LI>
<LI>Parsing complicated syntax </LI>
<LI>Using subprograms </LI></UL>
<H3>Lecture 2: Parsing Stata syntax, continued/Quotes, returned results, and subsamples</H3>
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<LI>Compound quotes for handling strings that may themselves contain quotes </LI>
<LI>Temporary variables </LI>
<LI>Using returned results from other programs </LI>
<LI>Restricting a calculation to a subsample </LI>
<LI>Putting together a complete program </LI></UL>
<H3>Lecture 3: Using scalars and macros and introduction to low-level parsing</H3>
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<LI>Scalars </LI>
<LI>Binary accuracy </LI>
<LI>Accuracy of macros versus scalars </LI>
<LI>Converting a program from macros to scalars </LI>
<LI>Handling <B>by()</B> options </LI>
<LI>Sorting </LI>
<LI>Low-level parsing </LI>
<LI>Programming immediate commands </LI>
<LI>Parsing new variables </LI></UL>
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<P>There is a week break between lectures 3 and 4 to allow more time for those who may fall behind and to allow for more discussion from the participants. </P>
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<H3>Lecture 4: Returning results and writing estimation commands</H3>
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<LI>Saved results </LI>
<LI>What can be returned in <B>r()</B>? </LI>
<LI>Referring to returned results in other programs </LI>
<LI>Referring to returned results in the program that sets them </LI>
<LI>Other types of returned values: <B>s()</B> and <B>e()</B> </LI>
<LI>S-class returned values </LI>
<LI>E-class returned results </LI>
<LI>Writing postestimation commands </LI>
<LI>Writing an estimation (e-class) command </LI>
<LI>Writing estimation commands from first principles </LI>
<LI>Writing estimation commands via maximum likelihood </LI></UL>
<H3>Lecture 5: List processing, controlling program output, and naming conventions</H3>
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<LI>Restricting commands to the relevant subsample </LI>
<LI>Which is better: <B>marksample</B> or <B>mark</B>? </LI>
<LI>Programming by varlist </LI>
<LI>Lists </LI>
<LI>Stepping through list elements one by one </LI>
<LI>Deleting elements from lists </LI>
<LI>Adding elements to lists </LI>
<LI>Macro vectors </LI>
<LI>Parsing revisited: <B>gettoken</B> </LI>
<LI>Quietly blocks </LI>
<LI>The relation between <B>capture</B> and <B>quietly</B> </LI>
<LI><B>capture</B> blocks </LI>
<LI>Naming conventions </LI>
<LI>Program naming convention </LI>
<LI>Calling convention </LI>
<LI>Version control </LI></UL>


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