Publications on Statistical Software

This page lists publications related to various programs for doing statistical analysis, as well as general information on working with statistical data.

Stata Basics

An Introduction to Stata
Intermediate Stata
Programming in Stata
Using STATA on Linux
An Introduction to Stata Graphics
An Introduction to Mata

Stata Topics

Finding and Installing User-Written Stata Programs
Using Stata Graphs in Documents
Including Calculated Results In Stata Graphs
Using Reshape to Manage Hierarchical Data
Bootstrapping in Stata
Making Predictions with Counter-Factual Data in Stata

SAS Basics

An Introduction to SAS Data Steps
Running SAS on Linux
SAS Version 9 Online Documentation
SAS Workbook for Writing SAS Programs to Process Data on UNIX
Redirecting and Customizing Tabular Output in SAS

SAS Topics

A Simple Procedure for Producing Publication-Quality Graphs using SAS
Storing SAS Formats
Using SAS to Perform a Table Lookup
Constructing Indicator Variables with SAS
Converting a Code Book to a SAS FORMAT Library
Using SAS to Reformat Data Records from One to Several
Saving SAS Graphs For Printing or Other Uses
Using Compressed Data in SAS

Older SAS Topics

SAS Programming Efficiencies
Creating SAS Transport Files

SPSS

Running SPSS Jobs on Linux
SPSS Online Documentation
Using SPSS to Reformat Data Records from One to Several

General

Computing Resources at the SSCC
Using Stat/Transfer
Running Linux Programs Using Windows (Mostly)
Running Jobs in Linux
Working with Data Sets in ASCII Text Format
Programming in Color

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