Computing and Data
Overview
Many faculty and graduate students conduct empirical analysis. This page briefly lists some resources available and provides links to on-line data sources and information about software used by members of the department.
Seawulf cluster
SeaWulf is a computational cluster using top of the line components from Penguin, DDN, Intel, Nvidia, Mellanox and numerous other technology partners. The parallel computing system has over 400 nodes and ~23,000 cores, with peak performance of ~1.86 PFLOP/s available for research computation. For more information about the SeaWulf Cluster, click HERE.
Software
The following links contain information about software which may be of interest to students and faculty. Some of the documentation from other Universities may contain information about running a particular package that may not be appropriate here. However, all of the basic tutorials about reading and writing data files and performing statistical and econometric analysis should be relevant.
Matlab
- Stony Brook Univeristy provides free Matlab licenses for faculty and students. Matlab licenses are available to download on the Softweb. For more information about downloading and installing Matlab, click HERE.
- Matlab Documentation
Stata
- Stata can be accessed for free by faculty and students on the Virtual SINC Site.
- Stata Home Page
- Stata Technical Bulletins
- Stata Information from UCLA
- Stata Tutorial
- Search for Stata Code at IDEAS
SAS
- SAS Home Page
- SAS Tutorial from the SAS Institute
- SAS Tutorial from the University of New Mexico
- SAS Manuals
SPSS
Fortran
- Numerical Recipies books (f77, f90, and c)
- Fortran Tutorials
- Sun Fortran 77 Language Reference
- Sun Fortran Programming Guide
- Sun Fortran User's Guide
- Sun Fortran Library Reference
- Sun Performance Library User's Guide
- Sun Numerical Computation Guide
- Sun dbx source code debugger User Guide
Gauss
- Gauss Home Page
- Gauss Programming for Econometricians and Financial Analysts
- Listing of Gauss Resources at American University
- Search for Gauss Code at IDEAS
IMSL
Maple
- Maple Home Page
- Maple Information at Indiana University
- Maple Information at Texas A&M
- Maple Information at The University of Texas
Other and Miscellaneous
Data On-Line
Micro Data Sets
- U.S. Census Data (Berkeley)
- U.S. Census Data (Minnesota)
- SIPP info at Penn State
- Consumer Expenditure Surveys
- Current Population Survey
- Health and Retirement Survey and AHEAD
- National Longitudinal Surveys
- National Longitudinal Surveys Manuals
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics
- Survey of Income and Program Participation