Mata is Stata's matrix programming language. StataCorp provides detailed documentation on it, but so far has failed to give users-and especially users who add new features to Stata-any guidance in when and how to use the language. This talk provides what has been missing. In practical ways, this...

Researchers do not adequately appreciate that floating-point numbers are a simulation of real numbers and, as with all simulations, some features are preserved while others are not. When writing code, or even do-files, treating the computer's floating-point numbers as if they were real numbers...

Researchers do not adequately appreciate that floating-point numbers are a simulation of real numbers and, as with all simulations, some features are preserved while others are not. When writing code, or even do-files, treating the computer's floating-point numbers as if they were real numbers...

Mata is Stata's matrix programming language. StataCorp provides detailed documentation on it, but so far has failed to give users-and especially users who add new features to Stata-any guidance in when and how to use the language. This talk provides what has been missing. In practical ways, this...

Mata is both an interactive environment for manipulating matrices and a full development environment that produces compiled and optimized code. This talk will cover both applications, with an emphasis on how you can use Mata to quickly program solutions and how you can easily create new Stata...