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Title: Excellent reference tool
Review: I'm a PhD student at a Top 25 business school. In much of my research I do a lot of econometric analysis. If you already have used statistical software before, then not only is Stata with all its support the package to use, but this book by Hamilton should be your quickstart guide.It is very easy to read, and very logical. But probably most importantly, at the beginning of each chapter it provides example commands, along with popular parameters you might use along with those commands. Which means that if you are familiar with what kind of analysis you want, typing it into Stata is just 2 minutes away with the help of this book.My only complaint -- and it is a significant one I believe -- is that this reference doesn't do a very good job of describing the panel data commands. Granted, panel data may be a little advanced for this "tidy" thing but I think even 20-25 pgs of panel data analysis and examples would have improved the entire presentation immensely.
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