Stata – 100 Advanced Tips Free Tutorial Download
About This Class
If you want to learn more about Stata but don’t have a lot of time, then this is the class for you!
In this class I provide 100 advanced and to-the-point tips for Stata.
These tips are professional grade and aimed at helping you become a Stata master! They cover a wide range of issues in data management, graphing, statistics and programming.
Each video is designed to be stand-alone and will take no more than 2 minutes.
Learn years worth of hard Stata knowledge in 2 hours!
You should have basic knowledge of Stata before starting this class.
The following themes are covered:
Data Management
- How to create a code book
- How to create a label book
- How to list only variable names
- How to describe unopened data
- How to search in variables
- How to drop/keep variables sequentially
- How to check a digital data signature
- How to verify data
- How to compare two datasets
- How to compare variables
- How to use tabulate to generate dummy variables
- How to avoid many logical OR operators
- How to number labels
- How to use labels in expressions
- How to attach one value label to many variables
- How to store single values
- How to use Stata’s hand-calculator
- How to use text with Stata’s hand-calculator
- How to select column of data in a do-file
- How to rectangularize data
- How to check if variables uniquely identify observations
- How to drop duplicate observations
- How to draw a sample
- How to transpose a dataset
- How to quickly expand and interact many variables
- How to create publication quality tables in word
- How to create publication quality tables in excel
- How to export regression results
Statistics
- How to create many one-way tables quickly
- How to create many two-way tables quickly
- How to sort and plot one-way tables
- How to expand data instead of using weights
- How to contract data to frequencies and percentages
- How to compute immediate statistics without loading data
- How to compute elasticities
- How to set the default confidence level
- How to show base levels of factor variables
- How to estimate a constrained linear regression
- How to bootstrap any regression
- How to interpolate missing values
- How to compute row statistics
- How to compute standardized coefficients after linear regression
- How to compute faster marginal effects
- How to reduce collinearity in polynomial variables
- How to use contrasting margins
- How to use pairwise comparison with margins
- How to define the constant in a regression
- How to visualise complex polynomial models
- How to identify outliers from a regression
Programming
- How to hide unwanted output
- How to force show wanted output
- How to hide a graph
- How to suppress error messages
- How to force do-files to run to the end
- How to execute programmes outside Stata
- How to check memory usage
- How to reduce files sizes
- How timestamp commands
- How to set a stopwatch
- How to pause Stata
- How to debug error messages
- How to pause for large output
- How to add custom ado folders
- How to create a custom user profile
- How to add comments to do-files
- How to loop over non-integer values
- How to monitor a loop
- How to show more in the results window
- How to display coefficient legends
- How to squish a table
- How to use and modify the Function keys
- How to view command sourcecode
- How to create custom correlations
- How to insert current time & date into log files
- How to save interactive commands
Graphing
- How to recover data from a graph
- How to generate a combined graph with one legend
- How to display RGB colors in graphs
- How to make colors opaque
- Why are SVG graphs useful?
- How to apply log scaling to a graph
- How to reverse and switch off axes
- How to have multiple axes on a graph
- How to display ASCII characters in graphs
- How to graph the variance-covariance matrix
- How to quickly plot estimated results
- How to randomly displace markers
- How to range plot
- How to download word frequencies from a webpage
- How to create a violin plot
- How to show the Stata color palette
- How to create custom titles
- How to customize the look of graphs
- How to show a correlation matrix as graphical table
- How to plot a histogram with a boxplot
- How to draw histograms with custom bins
- How to graph a one/two/three-way table
- How to recover graph code
- How to do polar smoothing
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