William Gould

The Mata Book

A Book for Serious Programmers and Those Who Want to Be

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Mata Book: A Book for Serious Programmers and Those Who Want to Be is the book that Stata programmers have been waiting for. Mata is a serious programming language for developing small- and large-scale projects and for adding features to Stata.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stata Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 183mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 876g
• ISBN-13: 9781597182638
• ISBN-10: 159718263X
• Artikelnr.: 52530684

Autorenporträt

William Gould is president and head of development at StataCorp.

Inhaltsangabe

The mechanics of using Mata. A programmer¿s tour of Mata. Matäs programming
statements. Matäs expressions. Matäs variable types. Matäs strict option
and Matäs pragmas. Matäs function arguments. Programming example:
n_choose_k() three ways. Matäs structures. Programming example: Linear
regression. Matäs classes. Programming example: Linear regression 2. Better
variable types. Programming constants. Matäs associative arrays.
Programming example: Sparse matrices. Programming example: Sparse matrices,
continued. The Mata Reference Manual. Writing Mata code to add new commands
to Stata. Matäs storage type for complex numbers. How Mata differs from C
and C++. Three-dimensional arrays (advanced use of pointers).