125 Quick Stata Tips

Descripción

Make sure to check out my twitter feed for monthly promo codes and other updates (@easystats3) 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 125 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 • How to add notes to data 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 • How to inspect 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 • How to view undocumented 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 • How to plotstyle • How to show multiple axes • How to quickly increase graph label ticks • How to view undocumented commandsHow to add notes to dataHow to add custom graph label ticks

Lo que aprenderás

• Fast, and to the point, useful tricks to use in Stata
• Data management
• Programming
• Graphics
• Statistics
• Professional level tips
• Advanced Stata

Requisitos

• Basic knowledge of Stata
• Basic knowledge of Stata code
• Basic statistics