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

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 10.
Go here to find out more about the capabilities of Stata 10.

• Stata's new WYSIWYG Graph Editor, which makes preparing Stata graphs for inclusion in documents a snap.

• Date/time variables.

• Estimation results may be saved on disk. People who analyze data produce estimation results. Previously, those results had to be stored on paper, in logs, or in notes. In Stata 10, they can be stored on disk and reused anytime.

• Exact logistic and Poisson regression. This will be of major importance to biostatisticians and those in related fields.

• Nested, hierarchical, and mixed logistic and Poisson regression. This is basically the equivalent of Stata 9's -xtmixed-, but for binary and count responses.

• More estimators for dynamic panel-data models, including the Arellano-Bover/Blundell-Bond system estimator.

• LIML and GMM regression in addition to 2SLS.

• Nonlinear, seemingly unrelated regression.

• Even more survey estimators, most importantly including survey Cox proportional hazards regression. As for the rest, Stata 10 includes 27 more survey estimators

• Discriminant analysis, including linear, quadratic, and kth-nearest-neighbor.

• Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Joint Correspondence Analysis (JCA).

• Sample-size and power calculations for survival studies. This is of importance to those designing experiments such as drug trials.

There's lots more -- about 21 pages.

Stata/MP 10
Stata/MP 10 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 or 32 processors; with the appropriate licence.

Go here for a comprehensive overview of Stata/MP 10.

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 10.0 yet?
The latest Stata 10.0 executable was updated on 27 May 2008 .
The latest updates to ADO files was on 25 Jun 2008 .
Stata is a living program, and updates are released from time to time to enhance it. You can check your current Stata 10.0 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

A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics, 2nd Edition Michael N. Mitchell (Now Available)

The chapters in this book are:
• Introduction
• Editor
• Twoway graphs
• Scatterplot matrix graphs
• Bar graphs
• Box plots
• Dot plots
• Pie charts
• Options available for most graphs
• Standard options available for all graphs
• Styles for changing the look of graphs
• Appendix

A Gentle Introduction to Stata, 2nd Edition Alan C. Acock (Available Soon)

The chapters in this book are:
• Getting started
• Entering data
• Preparing data for analysis
• Working with commands, do-files, and results
• Descriptive statistics and graphs for one variable
• Statistics and graphs for two categorical variables
• Tests for one or two means
• Bivariate correlation and regression
• Analysis of variance
• Multiple regression
• Logistic regression
• Measurement, reliability, and validity
• Appendix: What’s next?

An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers, 2nd Edition Svend Juul (Available Soon)

The chapters in this book are:
• Getting started
• Getting help—and more
• Stata file types and names
• Command syntax
• Variables
• Getting data in and out of Stata
• Documentation commands
• Calculations
• Commands affecting data structure
• Description and simple analysis
• Graphs
• Stratified analysis
• Regression analysis
• Incidence, mortality, and survival
• Measurement and diagnosis
• Miscellaneous
• Advanced topics
• Taking good care of your data
• Appendix: Manuals and other good books
• Appendix: Exercises
• Appendix: Advice on working with Windows
• Appendix

Stata Journal
To see the table of contents for Stata Journal Volume 7 Issue 4 (latest issue) go here . The cost of a 3-year subscription for the electronic only version is $A187. The cost of a one-year subscription for the electronic plus printed versions is $A108 (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 22 No.4 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.

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

Stata Tip

Sending Command(s) to the Stata Do Editor from the Stata Review Window

While running Stata interactively, either with dialogue boxes or from the command line the command(s) that you issue to Stata are recorded in the Review Window. These commands can be put directly into the Do Editor for rerunning a session of Stata again, modifying the commands and rerunning or as a record of the analysis.
Putting the contents or some of the contents of the Review Window into the Do Editor can be done as follows:

In the Review Windows selecting the command(s) that you wish to go into the Do editor by:

• Clicking on the command; if a single command is required
• If more than one command is required. Holding down the shift key and select the commands
• If all the commands that are currently in the Review Window are required then right click and and press select all

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