Updates to two Stata guides

Two Stata guides on this site have been updated. The guide to creating maps with Stata now covers the recently released module spmap by Maurizio Pisati, an update to his tmap module. Both spmap and tmap are free add-ons for the Stata statistical package. The guide to creating PNG images with Stata was also revised.

Map created with spmap in Stata: length of country names
Example map created with spmap in Stata

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Friedrich Huebler, 1 April 2007, Creative Commons License
Permanent URL: http://huebler.blogspot.com/2007/04/updates-to-two-stata-guides.html

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