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