Erasmus School of Economics
Erasmus School of Economics

Programming an Estimation Command in Stata/Mata

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Date
Friday 19 Oct 2018, 09:00 - 18:30
Type
Workshop
Spoken Language
English
Room
T3-20
Building
Mandeville Building
Location
Campus Woudestein
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David Drukker (Executive Director of Econometrics at Stata)

The course is open to all students and researchers interested in programming econometric/statistical methodology.  After providing an introduction to basic Stata do-file programming, the course covers basic and advanced ado-file programming.  Next, it provides an introduction to Mata, the byte-compiled matrix language that is part of Stata. Then, the course shows how to implement linear and nonlinear statistical methods in Stata/Mata programs.  Finally, the course discusses using Monte Carlo simulations, how to test the implementation. No Stata or Mata programming experience is required, but it does help. The course is partly designed to help methodological researchers in econometrics and statistics disseminate their research to a huge audience, by implementing their derived methods in Stata, as Stata is highly popular among applied researchers.

  • How does Stata work?         
    • Estimation-postestimation framework
    • Estimation followed by test, predict, and margins
  • A quick introduction to Stata do-file programming
  • An introduction to Stata ado-file programming and to syntax
  • A Stata program that implements the sample-average estimator for the mean
  • An introduction to basic Mata programming

  • An introduction to basic Mata programming
  • Making our mean program use Mata
  • More Mata programming examples
  • Mata programming for nonlinear statistical estimation       
    • A Stata/Mata program for Poisson regression
  • Making predict and margins work with our command
  • Monte Carlo simulations in Stata
  • Writing a certification script

  • David M. Drukker is the Executive Director of Econometrics at Stata and has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. His passion for programming took him to Stata in 1999. He has developed many Stata commands for estimating treatment effects and for analyzing panel data, time-series data, cross-sectional data, and spatial data. He played a key role in the initial development of Stata MP, helped integrate Mata into Stata, and has helped develop some of Stata's numerical techniques. He is also an active researcher, publishing papers in The American Economic Review, the Journal of Regional Science, Econometric Reviews, Economics Letters, and the Stata Journal, among other places.  He has been principal investigator on two large research grants. His current research interests are causal inference, spatial econometrics, and the robustness properties of two-part models.

Registration

Deadline for registration is Sunday, 14 October 2018

Organizer

Andrea Naghi

Sponsors

Econometric Institute
StataCorp LLC

More information

Interested participants can get an idea of the content of the course by glancing at the descriptions of the first 25 blog posts listed at:

https://blog.stata.com/2016/01/15/programming-an-estimation-command-in-stata-a-map-to-posted-entries/

Printed copies containing notes for the course will be provided. The course is free of charge, but registration is required, as places are limited. 

For more information contact the secretariat eb-secr@ese.eur.nl

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