115 Stata Tips
One hundred, no-nonsense, professional-grade tips to raise your Stata skills.
Updated on Sep, 2023
Language - English
Course Description
If you want to learn more about Stata but don't have a lot of time, this is the course for you!
In this course I provide 115 fast 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 3 hours!
You should have basic knowledge of Stata and do-files.
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
How to delete files from within Stata
How to display directory content
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
How to separate scatter
How to range a graph
How to foreground/background plot
Goals
What will you learn in this course:
- Learn many useful trick in Stata
- Learn advanced Stata code
- Learn tips around programming, graphics, statistics and data management
Prerequisites
What are the prerequisites for this course?
- Basic knowledge of Stata
- Basic knowledge of Stata code (syntax, .do files, basic commands)
- Basic statistics
Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Introduction
1 Lectures
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Introduction
01:46
01:46
Data Management Tips
33 Lectures
Statistics Tips
22 Lectures
Programming Tips
30 Lectures
Graphing Tips
29 Lectures
The Stata Cheat Sheet
1 Lectures
Instructor Details
F Buscha
Franz is a Professor of Economics at the University of Westminster. Franz joined the University of Westminster in 2006 after completing his PhD in Economics at Lancaster University.
Franz's personal research interests are in education economics, labor economics, and applied econometrics. Franz has made scientific contributions to issues such as social mobility, measuring the returns to education, the effect of weather of happiness and identity formation. He has been involved in numerous funded research projects from research councils and government departments.
Franz has contributed to wide range of projects including policy evaluation and bespoke econometric advice to UK government departments. These include the Ministry of Defence, HM Revenue and Customs, the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
He has published in leading journals such as Economics of Education Review, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, the British Journal of Political Science and the British Journal of Sociology. Franz has also contributed to numerous policy reports and his research has been covered by media outlets such as BBC news, BBC Radio 4, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times, and Huffington Post. Franz also has a monthly radio program called Policy Matters on Share Radio.
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