Level up your Stata skills with one hundred and twenty professional-grade tips. This course comes bundled with years' worth of hard Stata knowledge in three hours!
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Often, it takes years of experience to …
Level up your Stata skills with one hundred and twenty professional-grade tips. This course comes bundled with years' worth of hard Stata knowledge in three hours!
About This Video
In Detail
Often, it takes years of experience to accumulate knowledge of the different tips/tricks of any tools/technologies and this course comes bundled with all such valuable insights.
In this course, the author provides 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.
In this course, you will start learning and exploring tricks in the data management domain, such as comparing datasets, variables, and more. After that, you will explore a few tips in statistics such as Bootstrap any regression, interpolate missing values, and much more. Next, you will explore some pro tips in the programming area such as displaying coefficient legends, launching the interactive dialog box, and more.
Finally, you will look at some of the tricks in graphing areas, such as drawing histograms with custom bins, graphing the variance-covariance matrix, and much more.
By the end of this course, you will be confident enough to use advanced and professional tips/tricks to work efficiently on your programming, graphing, data management, and statistics areas in Strata.
Audience
This course is ideally for Stata users, data analysts, data scientists, quantitative degree students, and quantitative business users that want to explore this arena.
Individuals who want to skill up their experience in Stata and are looking to become Stata professionals will also benefit from this course.
Basic knowledge of Stata, Stata code, and statistics is an essential requirement to extract the most out of this course.
Chapter 1 : Introduction to the Course
Introduction
Chapter 2 : 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 Whether 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 Create and Use Long Strings
How to Use Emojis
How to Quickly Create New Groups
How to Delete Files from within Stata
How to Display File Directory Content
How to Clone a Variable
How to Re-Order Variables
Chapter 3 : 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 Visualize Complex Polynomial Models
How to Identify Outliers from a Regression
How to Predict Within and Outside a Regression Sample
Chapter 4 : 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 Programs Outside Stata
How to Check Memory Usage
How to Reduce Files Sizes
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 Source Code
How to Create Custom Correlations
How to Insert Current Time and Date into Log Files
How to Save Interactive Commands
How to Create Custom Number Lists
How to Change Between Lower and Upper Cases Variable Names and Data
How to Change Between Lower-Case and Upper-Case Text in Do-Files
How to Use Explicit Subscript
How to Launch the Interactive Dialog Box
Chapter 5 : 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 Download Word Frequencies from a Webpage
How to Create a Range Plot
How to Create a Violon 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 a 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 Visualize Ladders of Power
How to Combine Combined Graphs
How to Separate Scatter
How to Range a Graph
How to Use Foreground/Background in plotting
How to use Plot Style
How to Show Multiple Axes
Chapter 6 : The Stata Cheat Sheet
The Stata Cheat Sheet