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Contents: Introduction -- A Child's guide to running regressions -- Data input and output -- Discriptive statistics -- Plots -- Generating variables -- Ordinary least squares -- Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals -- Inequality restrictions -- Arima models -- Autocorrelation models -- Box-cox regressions -- Cointegration and unit root tests -- Diagnostic tests -- Distributed-lag models -- Forecasting -- Generalized least squares -- Heteroskedastic models -- Maximum likelihood estimation of non-normal models -- Nonlinear regression -- Pooled cross-section time-series -- Probit and logit regression -- Robust estimation -- Tobit regression -- Two-stage least squares and systems of equations -- Linear programming -- Matrix manipulation -- Price indexes -- Principal components and factor analysis -- Probability distributions -- Sorting data -- Set and display -- Miscellaneous commands and information -- Programming in shazam -- Shazam procedues -- French command names -- Summary of commands -- New features in shazam -- How to run shazam with DOS, Windows and OS/2 -- How to run shazam on macintosh -- How to run Shazam on UNIX computers -- How to run Shazam on mainframe computers -- References.