The purpose of this presentation is to present a step-by-step tutorial on how to draw thematic maps of Italy using the Stata user-written command spmap and spatially referenced data freely available on the Internet.

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In this talk, I will present the basic principles of exploratory spatial data analysis and their application using Stata. After a brief discussion of the specific features of spatial data, I will show some freely-available user-written Stata commands (spmap, spgrid, spkde, spatwmat, spatgsa,...

The adoption of certain behaviors—like smoking or physical activity—is recognized as a major factor affecting health. Analyzing the social determinants of these behaviors, then, should be considered an important goal, since it may improve our understanding of the more general phenomenon of...

Research trying to explain tourism flows and expenditures for different destinations has so far adopted either a tourism-demand or a tourism-supply approach. Whereas on the one hand the former ignores the product specificities (Papatheodorou, 2001), the latter, on the other, fails to take into...

I research the market efficiency of the German 6/49 parimutuel lottery game using Stata. To this end, I investigate the existence of profit opportunities for particularly unpopular combinations of numbers (Papachristou and Karamanis (1998)), employing the covariates proposed by Henze and Riedwyl...

A Stata program will be presented for improved quality control of econometric models. It is well known that reported econometric results often have unknown reliability because of selective reporting by the researcher. In particular, t-statistics are often uninformative or misleading when...

Literature on causal inference has emphasized the average causal effect, defined as the mean difference in potential outcomes under different treatment conditions. We consider marginal regression models that describe how causal effects vary in relation to covariates. To estimate parameters, we...

The quaids ado files written by Brian Poi provide a good template for constructing alternative ado files for maximum likelihood estimation of demand systems. I describe how I used the template to construct ado files to estimate a five commodity almost ideal demand system with demographic...