Stata: 100 Advanced Tips

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

Hands-on Class Project

Each video has a .do file (code) that you can download, modify and execute. The .do files are attached in the zip file below.

Do files should automatically load and execute the relevant data for each session. This will allow you to replicate all results in the videos.

As an additional challenge, explore some of the options associated with the many commands introduced in this class. Can you find any further tricks or useful tips from these commands? Post them and ask question about the individual sessions. This will help reinforce the knowledge that you’ve gained from the videos.