Stata
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 Stata 9.0 on Windows |
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| Developer: | Statacorp |
| Latest release: | 9.2 / July 13, 2006 |
| OS: | Windows, Mac OS X, Unix |
| Use: | statistical analysis |
| License: | proprietary |
| Website: | www.stata.com |
Stata, created in 1985 by Statacorp, is a statistical program used by many businesses and academic institutions around the world. Most of its users work in research, especially in the fields of economics, sociology, political science, and epidemiology.
Stata's full range of capabilities includes:
- Data management
- Statistical analysis
- Graphics
- Simulations
- Custom programming
[edit] External links
- Stata
- UCLA Stata Portal
- UCLA ATS Resources to help you learn Stata - Resources for learning Stata
- UCLA ATS Techical Reports - See Technical Report #1. Strategically using General Purpose Statistics Packages: A Look at Stata, SAS and SPSS
[edit] Commonly Used Commands:
regress - does an ordinary least squares regression
probit - returns results for a probit regression
logit - returns results for a logit regression
oprobit/ologit - returns results for an ordered probit/logit regression
mfx - computes the marginal effects for the probit/logit
drop if - drops observations conditional upon the statement
gen - generate a new variable
rename - rename a variable
compress - change the size of variables to use less memory
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