Syntax - Stata

2cluster kmeans and kmedians— Kmeans and kmedians cluster analysis Options Main k(#) is required and indicates that # groups are to be formed by the cluster analysis.

  Syntax

Syntax Description - Stata

2substr()— Extract substring Diagnostics In substr(s, b, l) and substr(s, b), if b describes a position before the beginning of the string or after the end, "" is returned.

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Title stata.com generate — Create or change …

Title stata.com generate — Create or change contents of variable SyntaxMenuDescriptionOptions Remarks and examplesMethods and formulasReferencesAlso see Syntax Create new variable generate type newvar

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SyntaxDescriptionRemarks and examplesAlso see

macro— Macro definition and manipulation 3 Macro extended functions related to matrices rownamesjcolnamesjrowfullnamesjcolfullnames matname roweqjcoleq

  Syntaxdescriptionremarks and examplesalso see, Syntaxdescriptionremarks, Examplesalso

Title stata.com graph box — Box plots

graph box— Box plots 3 Menu Graphics > Box plot Syntax graph box yvars if in weight, options graph hbox yvars if in weight, options where yvars is a varlist options Description

  Plot, Box plot

Title stata

area options — Options for specifying the look of special areas 3 Also see [G-2] graph dot — Dot charts (summary statistics)

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2cluster dendrogram— Dendrograms for hierarchical cluster analysis The height of the vertical lines and the range of the (dis)similarity axis give visual clues about the

Title stata.com putexcel — Export results to an Excel …

putexcel— Export results to an Excel file 3 export options Description Main overwritefmt overwrite existing cell formatting when exporting new content

  Putexcel

destring — Convert string variables to numeric ... - …

Title stata.com destring — Convert string variables to numeric variables and vice versa SyntaxMenuDescription Options for destringOptions for tostringRemarks and …

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Title stata.com gettoken — Low-level parsing

Title stata.com gettoken — Low-level parsing SyntaxDescriptionOptionsRemarks and examplesAlso see Syntax gettoken emname1 emname2: emname3, parse("pchars") quotes qed(lmacname) match(lmacname) bind

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Multinomial Response Models - Princeton University

6.2.4 Maximum Likelihood Estimation Estimation of the parameters of this model by maximum likelihood proceeds by maximization of the multinomial likelihood (6.2) with the probabilities ˇ ij viewed as functions of the jand parameters in Equation 6.3. This usu-ally requires numerical procedures, and Fisher scoring or Newton-Raphson

  Maximum, Multinomial, Likelihood, Maximum likelihood, Multinomial likelihood

CHAPTER N-gram Language Models

estimate probabilities is called maximum likelihood estimation or MLE. We get maximum likelihood estimation the MLE estimate for the parameters of an n-gram model by getting counts from a normalize corpus, and normalizing the counts so that they lie between 0 and 1.1 For example, to compute a particular bigram probability of a word w n given a ...

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Introduction to Generalized Linear Models

The estimates ^ have the usual properties of maximum likelihood estimators. In particular, ^ is asymptotically N ( ;i 1) where i( ) = 1 X T WX Standard errors for the j may therefore be calculated as the square roots of the diagonal elements of cov^( ^ ) = (X T WX^ ) 1 in which (X T WX^ ) 1 is a by-product of the nal IWLS iteration.

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Factor Analysis

Maximum likelihood method (MLE) " Goal: maximize the likelihood of producing the observed corr matrix " Assumption: distribution of variables (Y and F) is multivariate normal " Objective function: det(R MLE- ηI)=0, where R MLE=U-1(R-U2)U-1=U-1R LSU-1, and U2 is diag(1-h2) " Iterative fitting algorithm similar to LS approach

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Maximum Likelihood (ML), Expectation Maximization (EM)

Find maximum likelihood estimates of µ 1, µ 2 ! EM basic idea: if x(i) were known " two easy-to-solve separate ML problems ! EM iterates over ! E-step: For i=1,…,m fill in missing data x(i) according to what is most likely given the current model µ ! M-step: run ML for completed data, which gives new model µ

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