The Stata Project-Oriented Guide

Making your Stata project work! Data manipulation, programming and other tips to make your Stata project more reliable, robust and easier to work with

Introduction

This blog is a free Stata tutorial. I have been using Stata for the last two years now for different applied work in economics and other fie...

Step #6: Automation - Separating the Men from the Boys

Before we start, to make sure, when I'm talking about automation I'm referring to all sorts of ways to write a program in Stata that...

Step #5: Using commands' outputs

Now that we're done with data handling, we're skipping the part about statistical analysis commands (regressions and the like). The ...

Step #4: Thank God for the egen Command

Introduction What's so special, really, about the egen (extensions to genereate ) command? The answer is that it lets you do lots of th...

Step #1 - Getting the data

The first encounter with Stata, in many cases, can be one of the most frustrating ones. You got the first project you need to work on your o...

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stataman: I am a PhD student in the economics department at Stanford University. In the past years I have accumulated a significant share of practical knowledge of Stata. Who knows, maybe you will also find the advice here helpful.

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