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