IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/b/tsj/spbook/mata-book.html
   My bibliography  Save this book

The MATA Book: A Book for Serious Programmers and Those Who Want to Be

Author

Listed:
  • William W. Gould

    (StataCorp LP)

Abstract

The Mata Book: A Book for Serious Programmers and Those Who Want to Be is the book that Stata programmers have been waiting for. Mata is a serious programming language for developing small- and large-scale projects and for adding features to Stata. What makes Mata serious is that it provides structures, classes, and pointers along with matrix capabilities. The book is serious in that it covers those advanced features, and teaches them. The reader is assumed to have programming experience, but only some programming experience. That experience could be with Stata's ado-language, or with Python, Java, C++, Fortran, or other similar languages. The book covers Mata, programming, workflow, verification, and certification. As the book says, "being serious is a matter of attitude, not current skill level or knowledge".

Suggested Citation

  • William W. Gould, 2018. "The MATA Book: A Book for Serious Programmers and Those Who Want to Be," Stata Press books, StataCorp LLC, edition 1, number mata-book, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsj:spbook:mata-book
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.stata.com/bookstore/mata-book/
    File Function: description of book
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536867X19874262
    File Function: review of book
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Stata; Mata; programming;
    All these keywords.

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:tsj:spbook:mata-book. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F. Baum or Lisa Gilmore (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.stata-press.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.