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STATA 11 (Available after July 27, 2009)

Epidemiology Longitudinal/Panel Data Multivariate Methods Survey Data Survival Analysis Time-Series Multiple Inputation

In addition, Stata produces publication-quality graphics, contains extensive data-management capabilities, and has a powerful matrix-programming language.

Go here for a comprehensive overview of what's new in Stata 11.
Go here to find out more about the capabilities of Stata 11.

Stata/MP 11
Stata/MP 11 is a version of Stata/SE that runs on multiprocessor computers, thus significantly reducing the time required to run your analysis. Stata/MP provides the most extensive support for multiple-processor computers and dual-core computers of any statistics and data-management package. StataMP can run on computers with 2,4,8,16,32 & 64 processors; with the appropriate licence.

Go here for a comprehensive overview of Stata/MP 11.

Stat/Transfer 9
Stata/Transfer is a program that facilitates the changing of file formats eg. a SPSS data file can be converted to a Stata data file
Go here for details of Stat/Transfer 9.

Have you updated Stata 10 yet?
The latest Stata 10.1 executable was updated on 02 Feb 2009 .
The latest updates to ADO files was on 16 Apr 2009 .
Stata is a living program, and updates are released from time to time to enhance it. You can check your current Stata 11 status with the pull down menu Help>Official Updates and then click on www.stata.com. Then follow instructions. You check what has changed using the pull down menu -Help>Whatsnew-. Alternatively let Stata do the checking for you. Using the pull down menu goto Prefs/General Preferences/Internet and then check the enable automatic update checking square.
For more information on updating Stata type help update on the Stata command line.

Recent  Releases

An Introduction to Stata Programming Christopher F. Baum (Now Available)

The chapters in this book are:
• Why should you become a Stata programmer?
• Some elementary concepts and tools
• Do-file programming: Functions, macros, scalars, and matrices
• Cookbook: Do-file programming I
• Do-file programming: Validation, results, and data management
• Cookbook: Do-file programming II
• Do-file programming: Prefixes, loops, and lists
• Cookbook: Do-file programming III
• Do-file programming: Other topics
• Cookbook: Do-file programming IV
• Ado-file programming
• Cookbook: Ado-file programming
• Mata functions for ado-file programming
• Cookbook: Mata function programming

Meta-Analysis in Stata: An Updated Collection from the Stata Journal Editor: Jonathan A. C. Sterne (Now Available)

The chapters in this book are:
• Meta-analysis in Stata: metan, metacum, and metap
• Meta-regression: metareg
• Investigating bias in meta-analysis: metafunnel, confunnel, metabias, and metatrim
• Advanced methods: metandi, glst, metamiss, and mvmeta

Microeconometrics Using Stata A. Colin Cameron and Pravin K. Trivedi (Now Available)

The chapters in this book are:
• Stata basics
• Data management and graphics
• Linear regression basics
• Simulation
• GLS regression
• Linear instrumental-variables regression
• Quantile regression
• Linear panel-data models: Basics
• Linear panel-data models: Extensions
• Nonlinear regression methods
• Nonlinear optimization methods
• Testing methods
• Bootstrap methods
• Binary outcome models
• Multinomial models
• Tobit and selection models
• Count-data models
• Nonlinear panel models
• Programming in Stata
• Mata

Stata Journal
To see the table of contents for Stata Journal Volume 9 Issue 1 (latest issue) go here . The cost of a 3-year subscription for the electronic only version is $A258. The cost of a one-year subscription for the electronic plus printed versions is $A138. (postage included).

Stata Journal back copies
Free back copies of the Stata journal older than 3 years can be obtained from: back copies of Stata Journal (>3 years old)

The Stata Techncial bulletin (the predecessor to the Stata Journal) is now available free from: Stata Technail Bulletin
When you do a search in Stata eg. search regress you will often see STB- besides links. The STB refers to the Stata Technical Bulletin

Stata News
Stata News Volume 24 No.1 has now been posted. If you would like a copy please contact us. The Stata News consists of important announcements about new products, upcoming releases, course dates, NetCourse information, and more. Go here to see the electronic version of the Stata News.

Bookshop
For books on Statistics and to help you learn Stata go here.

Stata Tip

Transparent Graphs

Stata graphs can be made transparent in MS Word and other software. For example the following graph was produced in Stata and then made transparent in Word.

Contact details
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Survey Design and Analysis Services Pty Ltd,
PO Box 1206,
Blackburn North, Victoria 3130
Phone: 03 9878 7373
Fax: 03 9878 2345
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Email: sales@survey-design.com.au
ABN 37 051 831 826

If our office is not attended, please leave your message as well as your phone number or Email address on our answering machine. You can send an Email or fax at any time and we will attend to it as soon as we can.

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Survey Design and Analysis Services Pty/Ltd

Our company is:

• The Australian & New Zealand distributors for StataCorp. Stata is an integrated suite of software for data management, statistical analysis and graphics, and is available for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX computers. Stata is used by medical researchers, biostatisticians, epidemiologists, economists, sociologists, political scientists, geographers, psychologists, social scientists, and other research professionals needing to handle and analyse data.
  

• The Australian & New Zealand distributors for Stat/Transfer (Circle Systems). Stat/Transfer handles the transfer of data between a wide range of data formats.
  

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