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Efficiency tips #9

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matthew-white opened this issue Mar 29, 2014 · 1 comment
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Efficiency tips #9

matthew-white opened this issue Mar 29, 2014 · 1 comment
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How to write a program that is efficient and executes quickly
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If at all possible, don't loop over all observations in Stata (e.g., using forvalues i = 1/=_N'), as this is very slow. Use by, merge`, or Mata instead.

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