Speaking Stata: MMXI and all That: Handling Roman Numerals within Stata

Speaking Stata: Graphing distributions

Graphing univariate distributions is central to both statistical graphics, in general, and Stata’s graphics, in particular. Now that Stata 8 is out, a review of official and user-written commands is timely. The emphasis here is on going beyond what is obviously and readily available, with pointers to minor and major trickery and various user-written commands. For plotting histogram-like display...

Speaking Stata: Graphing categorical and compositional data

Abstract. A variety of graphs have been devised for categorical and compositional data, ranging from widely familiar to more unusual displays. Both official Stata commands and user-written programs are available. After a stacking trick for binary responses is explained, bar charts and related displays for cross-tabulations are discussed in detail. Tips and tricks are introduced for plotting cum...

Speaking Stata: Problems with tables, Part I

Tables in some form or another are part and parcel of data management and analysis. The main general-purpose tabulation commands, tabulate, table, and tabstat, are reviewed and compared. When these do not provide a tabulation solution, one key strategy is to prepare the material for tabulation as a set of variables, after which the table itself can be presented with tabdisp or list. This is the...

Robust Regression in Stata

In regression analysis, the presence of outliers in the data set can strongly distort the classical least squares estimator and lead to unreliable results. To deal with this, several robust-to-outliers methods have been proposed in the statistical literature. In Stata, some of these methods are available through the commands rreg and qreg. Unfortunately, these methods only resist to some specif...

Stata Time-series Reference Manual