Stata Resources

Quick Links

Accessing the Software

• VU Multi-Factor Authentication
• VMware access
• Frank Lester's 10.27.2021 instructions for remote access to Stata
• Purchase Stata
• Differences between Stata versions
• Downloading and installing Stata
• Extended discussion of Stata/MP
• 2021 General Social Survey

Academic Tutorials & Workshops

• Princeton University Stata tutorial
• UCLA Stata resources
• University of Michigan Stata workshop

O'Reilly Courses

• VU announcement of partnership with O'Reilly for Higher Education
• O'Reilly for Higher Education homepage
• VUNetID and password protocol
• O'Reilly's "120 Quick Stata Tips"
• "Data Visualization in Stata"
• "The Stata Omnibus: Regression and Modelling with Stata"

StataCorp Courses

• User reviews of StataCorp's paid Stata instructional courses
• NetCourse summary
• NetCourse course descriptions
• NetCourse FAQ
• NetCourse Fall & Winter 2022-2023 enrollment and pricing
• NetCourseNow summary
• NetCourseNow course descriptions
• NetCourseNow FAQ
• NetCourseNow enrollment and pricing

Videos - Getting Acquainted with Stata

• StataCorp YouTube page
• StataCorp directory of video tutorials
• "Tour of the Stata 17 interface"
• "What's it like - Getting Started in Stata"
• "Quick help in Stata"

Videos - Managing Your Data

• "Import Excel data into Stata"
• "Import data from SPSS and SAS"
• "Data Management: How to identify and remove duplicate observations"
• "Data Management: How to convert a string variable to a numeric variable"
• "Data Management: How to create a categorical variable from a continuous variable"

Videos - Putting Stata to Work

• "Box plots in Stata"
• "Basic scatterplots in Stata"
• "Histograms in Stata"
• "Simple linear regression in Stata"
• "Fitting and interpreting regression models: Logistic regression with continuous and categorical predictors"

Stata Documentation

• Stata 17 electronic documentation
• Stata 17 PDF documentation
• Stata Quick Starts reference page

Statalist

• Statalist homepage
• Forum registration
• Browse Stata Forum topics and discussion threads
• Statalist FAQ
• Statalist archive

Blogs

• Not Elsewhere Classified
• Code and Culture
• StataTex Blog
• The Stata Guide
• Usuarios Stata en español
• Econometrics by Simulation
• International Education Statistics

Stata Journal

• Stata Technical Bulletin (STB) archive
• Announcement of Stata Journal partnership with Sage Publishing
• Stata Journal FAQ
• Stata Journal entry in VU online catalogue
• Clarivate Journal Citation Reports - Stata Journal
• July 2022 issue of Stata Journal
• VU page comparing various Open Access publishing models
• Troncoso, P. & Morales-Gomez, A. (2022). Estimating the complier average causal effect via a latent class approach using gsem. Stata Journal, 22(2).
• Pinna, M. (2022). Binned scatterplots with marginal histograms: binscatterhist. Stata Journal, 22(2).
• Cox, N. J. (2022). Speaking Stata: The largest five--A tale of tail values. Stata Journal, 22(2).
• Instructions for loading Journal software: pt. 1
• Instructions for loading Journal software: pt. 2
• Stata Press homepage
• Cameron, A. C. & Trivedi, P. K. (2022). Microeconomics using Stata (2nd ed.). Stata Press.
• Mitchell, M. N. (2002). A visual guide to Stata graphics (4th ed.). Stata Press.
• Rabe-Hesketh, S. & Skrondal, A. (2022). Multilevel and longitudinal modeling using Stata (4th ed.). Stata Press.
• Juul, S. & Frydenberg, M. (2021). An introduction to Stata for Health researchers (5th ed.). Stata Press.

Conferences

• Morten Wang Fagerland, Oslo University Hospital
• Tim Schmidt, Discover Financial Services
• Christopher Baum, Boston College
• Nel Jason Haw, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Gustavo Javier Canavire-Bacarreza, The World Bank
• StataCorp conferences webpage
• Archived conference proceedings
• 2023 Stata Conference announcement
• 2023 Conference alert sign-up
• International Stata conference schedule