Stata Tutorial Introduction

This tutorial is an introduction to Stata emphasizing data management and graphics. A complementary discussion of statistical models may be found in the Stata Logs of my generalized linear models course at http://data.princeton.edu/wws509/stata.

1. Introduction

1.1 A Quick Tour of Stata
1.2 Using Stata Effectively
1.3 Stata Resources

2. Data Management

2.1 Stata Files
2.2 Reading Data Into Stata
2.3 Data Documentation
2.4 Creating New Variables
2.5 Managing Stata Files

3. Stata Graphics

3.1 Scatterplots
3.2 Line Plots
3.3 Managing Plots

4. Programming Stata

4.1 Macros
4.2 Looping
4.3 Writing Commands