Course Summary:

- 1st and 2nd lectures give you the most commonly used commands in Stata for your empirical research.

- 3rd lecture introduces scalar and matrices as well as the loops that will improve your programming efficiency.

- 4th and 5th lectures provides you with a brief introduction on how to write a complete Stata package (ado file + help file) as well as a 'fun' part - maximum-likelihood estimation in Stata.

The files are all free to circulate. If any one of your friends would like to learn. Feel free to give the files.