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STATA

Stata is an interactive data analysis program which runs on a variety of platforms. Stata is installed on the Windows machines and Macs in OIT's public clusters and on the Windows machines in the DSS Data Lab, as well as on the Tombstone Unix server.

DSS Resources

Introduction to Stata

• Introduction
• Issuing Commands
• Stata's Online Help
• Operating System Interface
• Dealing With Memory Requirements - what to do if there's "no room"
• Keeping Track of Your Work
• Stata's Built-in Calculator: display

Data, Datasets and Variables

• Data Files - what they are and how to get them in Stata
  • Converting to and from Excel and spreadsheet files
  • Reading other kinds of text data
• Saving Data
• Missing Values
• Stata Variable Types
• Stata Variable Names

Exploring your Data

• Examining your Data
• Summary Statistics
• Simple Regression
• Predicted Values

Creating and Modifying Variables

• Variable creation commands
• The if qualifier
• Combining tests: and and or
• Subscripting

Running Stata on Unix

• Running Unix Stata in text mode
• Stata for Unix with an XWindows interface
• Running large jobs in the background

Additional help on using Stata for particular types of analysis can be found on our analysis page.
See in particular:

• Interpreting Stata Regression Output
• Time Series Data in Stata
• Reshape World Development Indicators for Stata Analysis
• Convert multiple row records data and extract information from text variables
• Getting Started in Data Anlysis using Stata
• Online training section

Resources at Other Sites

• Stata Learning Modules at the UCLA Statistical Computing portal
  Graphing tutorials, data entry, collapsing and merging, and some regression diagnostics.
• Stata Programming: Data Management at the Carolina Population Center
  Tutorials on topics including basic summary statistics, entering data, merging data files, and some more advanced programming concepts.
• Regression with Stata online text from UCLA
  Model specification, regression commands, data diagnostics, interpreting Stata output.
• Stata.com FAQs
  Official answers to questions on how to perform various specific tasks with Stata.