Contents
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Ox Environment
1.1 Installing Ox
1.2 Ox version
1.3 Help and documentation
1.4 Running an Ox program
1.5 Redirecting output
1.6 Using OxMetrics and OxRun
1.7 Using the OxEdit editor
1.8 Graphics
1.9 Compilation and run-time errors
1.10 Have you programmed before?
2. Syntax
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Comment
2.3 Program layout
2.4 Statements
2.5 Identifiers
2.6 Style
2.7 Matrix constants
2.8 Creating a matrix
2.9 Using functions
3. Operators
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Index operators
3.3 Matrix Operators
3.4 Dot operators
3.5 Relational and equality operators
3.6 Logical operators
3.7 Assignment operators
3.8 Conditional operators
3.9 And more operaotrs
3.10 Operator precedence
4. Input and Output
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Using paths in Ox
4.3 Using OxMetrics or Excel
4.4 Matrix file (.mat)
4.5 Spreadsheet files
4.6 OxMetrics/PcGive data file (.IN7/.BN7)
4.7 What about variable names ?
4.8 Finding that file
5. Program Flow and Program Design
5.1 Intervention
5.2 for loops
5.3 while loops
5.4 break and continue
5.5 Conditional statements
5.6 Vectorization
5.7 Functions as arguments
5.8 Imporing code
5.9 Global variables
5.10 Program organisation
5.11 Style and Hungarian notation
6. Graphics
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Graphics output
6.3 Running programs with graphics
6.4 Example
7. String, Arrays and Print Formats
7.1 Introduction
7.2 String operators
7.3 The sprint function
7.4 Escape sequence
7.5 Print formats
7.6 Arrays
7.7 Missing values
7.8 Infinity
8. Object-Oriented Programming
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Using object oriented code
8.3 Writing object-oriented code
8.4 Inheritance
9. Summary
9.1 Style
9.2 Functions
9.3 Efficient programming
9.4 Computaional speed
9.5 Noteworthy
10. Using Ox Classes
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Regression example
10.3 Simulation example
10.4 MySimula class
10.5 Conclusion
11. Example: probit estimation
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The probit model
11.3 Step 1: estimation
11.4 Step 2: Analytical scores
11.5 Step 3: removing global variables: the database class
11.6 Step 4: independence from the model specification
11.7 Step 5: using the modelbase class
11.8 A Monte Carlo experiment
11.9 Conclusion
A1 debug session
A2 Installation Issues
A.2.1 Update the environment
A.2.2 Using the OxEdit editor
References
Subject Index
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