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Re: The Penultimate Guide to Precision

hi

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Re: How to successfully ask a question on Statalist

Nice one. I want to run Meta-frontier analysis. Can someone help me please?

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Re: Statalist

How can I run metafrontier analysis

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Re: Comments are now open!

I am trying to create a dissimilarity matrix for 11 variables, but stata says "too few variables specified." Surely 11 variables is not below a miniumum. Thanks

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Re: Merging data, part 1: Merges gone bad

Thanks for writing this. I just came across this issue today. Wasn't sure why my merge looked wrong until I found your article.

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Re: Connection string support added to odbc command

Is there any way to add an ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE string to the odbc insert command? I can read the current table to a separate dataset and merge, or alternatively loop through the observations and...

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Re: Using Stata’s random-number generators, part 2, drawing without...

Great post!

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Re: Using import excel with real world data

Can you provide a URL to download the Excel file used in the example?

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Re: Using Stata’s random-number generators, part 2, drawing without...

Can you explain why sort does not use the same seed as the other random number generators? That would make sort also foolproof with respect to reproducibility.

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Re: Using Stata’s random-number generators, part 2, drawing without...

We did not because we we did not want reproducibility in this case. Consider a piece of code that, run on the same data, produces different results in different runs. Assume the random behavior is not...

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Re: Using Stata’s random-number generators, part 3, drawing with...

Interesting, as always. Is there an advantage to using this method instead of the 'sample' or 'bsample'?

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Re: Using Stata’s random-number generators, part 3, drawing with...

There is no advantage whatsoever. It is, however, useful to know how -sample- and -bsample- work in case you want to do something they cannot do. -bsample-, for instance, draws samples of size n=N from...

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Re: Stata YouTube Channel Announced!

Reshape. :-)

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Re: Stata YouTube Channel Announced!

Finally!!!!!!! Please Please Please Please post a video where you explain how to interpret the coeficient of a binary exogenous variable on a ordered logistic regression

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Re: Stata YouTube Channel Announced!

Please record new videos at a lower resolution, because not all of us have FHD screens.Best

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Re: Stata YouTube Channel Announced!

I can't think of a video request right now, but am I the only one that finds the line "Similarly, topics that are only interesting to you and your two post-docs such as 'Please describe the difference...

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Re: Stata YouTube Channel Announced!

Anything on how to use Stata's capabilities to visualise large (ideally panel) datasets would be really useful.

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Re: Stata YouTube Channel Announced!

- A video on using the do-files and the do-file editor; pasting commands from the review window to a .do file; some comments on using .do files to perform reproducible research; making your .do files...

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Re: Stata YouTube Channel Announced!

Thanks for the feedback Sami. Many people agreed with you so I have re-recorded all of the videos in 720p with a more eye-friendly font size. They are still produced at 1080p resolution so the video...

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Re: Stata YouTube Channel Announced!

Thanks Maarten - all excellent suggestions which are near the top of my to-do list. Stay tuned.....

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