Overview

If you are a beginner with Stata, we recommend getting started with UCLA’s documentation. UCLA provides code and often example datasets that can be downloaded and used. Additionally, UCLA often documents how to read output. If you are a more advanced Stata user, we recommend all of Oscar Torres-Reyna’s documentation. Torres-Reyna provides all the code and output interpretation. However, his work assumes that the user has a working knowledge of Stata and often econometric analysis. For more advance users, we recommend using Stata’s document to look up specific examples and command options.

Stata Documentation

• Stata’s home page has video tutorials that walk you through different analyses in Stata

UCLA Documentation

• UCLA’s website provides clear documentation

Oscar Torres-Reyna – Princeton University

• Oscar Torres-Reyna’s lessons: Oscar is a data consultant at Princeton University and makes his lessons available for public use. The presentations are long, but extremely insightful and explain and output questions you may have.

Christopher Baum – Boston College

• Christopher Baum’s lessons: Christopher is an Economics professor at Boston College. He’s written many books about Stata and also makes his Stata presentations available to the public. Linked below is his “Introduction to Stata” presentation that goes over basic commands in Stata.

Stata Tutorial – Princeton University

• Princeton’s Tutorial

Anthony Grogan-Kaylor’s 2-page Introduction to Stata

• Anthony’s Guide

Data Management

Merge

• Oscar Torres-Reyna on merging

Append

• Oscar Torres-Reyna on appending

Reshaping Data (Wide-to-Long, Long-Wide)

• Oscar Torres-Reyna on reshaping data

Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive statistics are most easily created using tabulate (tab) or tabstat in Stata.

Graphs and Figures

• Stata Graphing Help
• UCLA
• Princeton: very in-depth, but helpful

Regression

Simple/Multiple Regression

• UCLA
• Oscar Torres-Reyna

Time Series Regression

• Oscar Torres-Reyna

Panel Data Regression

• Oscar Torres-Reyna
• Hun Myoung Park on Linear Regression with Panel Data: This is a long, but very in-depth document about regression estimation with panel data in Stata. Recommended for intermediate or advanced Stata users with some background in econometrics.

Logistic Regression

• UCLA documentation on logistic regression
• Oscar Torres-Reyna on probit/tobit
• Stata documentation on how to run a logistic regression (code and point and click version)

Other Analyses

Factor Analysis

• Oscar Torres

Other:

• Oscar Torres-Reyna on Outreg2: Making Tables and Graphs for Papers and Publications in Stata

Connecting to Stata using the VM:

• Connection Instructions Here