120 Quick Stata Tips




120 Quick Stata Tips

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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 120 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. If you do not have this check out my "Essential Guide to Stata".

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

  • How to delete files from within Stata

  • How to display directory content

  • How to clone a variable

  • How to re-order variables

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

  • How to launch the interactive dialog box

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

  • How to plotstyle

  • How to show multiple axes

Becomes a Stata Pro! One hundred and twenty, no-nonsense, professional-grade tips to raise your Stata skills.

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What you will learn
  • Fast, and to the point, useful tricks to use in Stata
  • Data management
  • Programming

Rating: 4.6

Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 3 hours

Instructor: F. Buscha


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