These notes are intended as a guide to some useful ``tricks of the trade'' for the use of SPLUS in econometric research. They cover a wide gamet of topics from numerical simulation to transforming SPLUS arrays into LaTeX table format. It is hoped that through feedback from readers it will be possible to extend these notes further in a continuing effort ot demystify the process of describing econometric research. It is inevitable that may relevant research details will be omitted from published research papers. This should not be taken as an invitation to let them suffer in the darkness of benign neglect. One of the great potentialities of the internet, as David Donoho has recently emphasized to the wider statistical community, is to bring these details out into the light where they may be debated, tested, and refined.
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