120 Quick Stata Tips

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

What you’ll learn
Fast, and to the point, useful tricks to use in Stata
Data management
Programming
Graphics
Statistics
Professional level tips
Advanced Stata
Requirements
Basic knowledge of Stata
Basic knowledge of Stata code
Basic statistics
Description
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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

Who this course is for
Those working with Stata
Those wanting to skill-up in Stata
Those looking to become Stata professionals