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sysuse auto.dta, clear

local style "s(0) w(1) lc(none) discrete frac"

tw ///
  (histogram rep78 if foreign == 1 ///
    , fc(black%50) barwidth(0.9) `style') ///
  (histogram rep78 if foreign == 0 ///
    , fc(red%50) barwidth(0.8) `style') 

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// Regression margins visualizer

cap prog drop regmargins
prog def regmargins

  // Syntax command
  syntax anything
    // Expected syntax is like regress
    // Second entry should be factor variable (i.) and we will visualize levels

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sysuse auto.dta , clear

levelsof foreign, local(levels)

tempfile posty
postfile posty str10(a) b c d using `posty' , replace

foreach level in `levels' {
  local l : label (foreign) `level'
  post posty ("`l'") (2) (3) (4)

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Asking for help with errors in statistical programming

No matter how experienced you are in statistical programming, you are certain to encounter errors in your code from time to time. You will recognize some of them and be able to solve them quickly, but you will never stop encountering unexpected new errors that you need help to resolve. Asking for help with statistical programming is hard. You need to give enough information to the person helping you so that they can produce the exact same problem you have

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" version="1.0" page-range-format="chicago" demote-non-dropping-particle="sort-only">
  <!-- This style was edited with the Visual CSL Editor (https://editor.citationstyles.org/visualEditor/) -->
  <info>
    <title>American Political Science Association</title>
    <title-short>APSA</title-short>
    <id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/american-political-science-association</id>
    <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/american-political-science-association" rel="self"/>
    <link href="http://www.apsanet.org/media/PDFs/Publications/APSAStyleManual2006.pdf" rel="documentation"/>
    <author>

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 // Selection bias for normally-distributed effect with choice
// Setup
qui {
  clear all
  cls
  version 13
    
  // Reproducibility with bit.ly/stata-random
  set seed 422698	// Timestamp: 2021-01-22 16:41:57 UTC

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**

cap prog drop gtrans
	prog def gtrans , rclass
	
	syntax anything
	preserve
		qui {
			local theText = subinstr("`anything'"," ","%20",.) // HTML for whitespace
					

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convert -delay 20 -loop 0 *.png output.gif

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Automatically include link to current git commit/SHA in compiled LaTeX pdf

This code lets you include an automatically updating link in a LaTeX compiled document that points to the last commit in the branch currently checked out in the repository where the .tex file used to compile the documents is saved. This allows you to track exactly which version of your .tex file was used to generate a given PDF.

Using Git you can then go back to the exact code used when compiling any saved or printed version of your document you find, no matter how long ago it was compiled. The commit SHA (the unique commit ID) will automatically update each time there is a new commit

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* Intervals program

cap prog drop intervals
		prog def  intervals
		syntax anything [if] [in] [pweight], [Binary]
			marksample touse
			
	preserve
		qui keep if `touse'