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Title: Almost certainly not needed
Review: I bought this book by mistake because the words "Solutions manual to accompany..." were at the time put last in Amazon's title tag. I did get the main book, read that one carefully and found it helpful. The solutions manual, however, never proved useful. It is just page upon page of drab computer printouts with STATA code and sparse comments. Look at the preview pages and see for yourself. I downloaded the sample data sets and redid the examples in R, and found that quite sufficient.
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