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x28.4.3 Finding files to download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38628.4.4 Updating additions by users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38628.5 Making your own download site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386Subject and author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Stata basics1 Read this—it will help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 A brief description of Stata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 Resources for learning and using Stata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 Stata’s help and search facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 Flavors of Stata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 Setting the size of memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 –more– conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698 Error messages and return codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719 The Break key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7510 Keyboard use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771
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12 DataContents12.1 Data and datase
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176 [ U ] 15 Saving and printing ou
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182 [ U ] 16 Do-filesYou then enter
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186 [ U ] 16 Do-files16.1.4 Error h
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188 [ U ] 16 Do-filesMany users inc
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192 [ U ] 16 Do-filesyou could writ
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17 Ado-filesContents17.1 Descriptio
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18 Programming StataContents18.1 De
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