Stas Kolenikov: teaching materials

American Economic Association Summer Program 2005
Blackboard @ Duke
My web page

Stata Class 1: basics Class 2: dealing with data within a single file Class 3: estimation Class 4: repetitive tasks Main Stata commands Useful links Stata Corp. website What is Stata? Stata capabilities My JAE review of Stata 7 Kit Baum's review of Stata 8.1 Learning Stata UCLA Academic Technologies Services Stata tutorials Learning Stata CPC tutorials (especially good for combining files) Doing research with Stata StataList Statistical Software Components Archive Adding features to Stata Presenting your results In LaTeX In MS Word Questions on Stata? Use search/findit and help to find out about a topic or a command Read the manuals (check them out from me) and follow the references Check those FAQs (they are excellent in clarity and coverage): Stata User Support FAQs FAQs at UCLA Academic Technologies Services Post a question to StataList

LaTeX Handout 1: source file, PDF file, bibliography file. Useful links General CTAN -- Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. A little bit archaic in exterior, but still fully functional and up-to-date source of information and packages. LaTeX project -- the website where the new developments in LaTeX are supposed to occur. CTAN mirror at Duke: LaTeX for various platforms, LaTeX packages Installing LaTeX (Kopka & Daly book has TeXlive installation disk) MikTeX -- an implementation of LaTeX for Windows. Download this: small MiKTeX that will have only the backbone packages; others will be installed on the fly if your computer is connected to the Internet at the time when they are needed. WinEdt -- a powerful Windows text editor. Download this: WinEdt v.5.4. Read on WinEdt and MikTeX MacTeX -- LaTeX system for MacOS teTeX -- LaTeX system for UNIX/Linux Tutorials and summaries LaTeX tutorials from UK TeX archive Getting started with LaTeX -- a nice guide, even though written 10 years ago LaTeX guide for graduate students from Technion LaTeX command summary: original in PostScript, PDF translation BibTeX Bibtex Entry Types, Field Types and Usage Hints BibTeX and examples of bibliography styles Choosing a BibTeX style Styles for journals in economics and finance (Google cache) and statistics