Blog: Stata Tips of The Stata Journal and Others
This column of the Stata Journal is focusing on how to improve your fluency in Stata
- Loops, again and again [20(4)]
- Is a variable constant?
- More ways for rowwise
- Concatenating values over observations
- Some simple devices to ease the spaghetti problem
- The last day of the month
- How best to generate indicator or dummy variables
- Seven steps for vexatious string variables
- From rounding to binning
- Logarithmic binning and labeling
- Tables as lists: The groups command
- Letter values as selected quantiles
- Shading zones on time series and other plots
- Multiple bar charts in table form
- Truth, falsity, indication, and negation
- A set of utilities for managing missing values
- Species of origin [15(2)]
- Design plots for graphical summary of a response given factors
- Self and others
- Trimming to taste
- Creating and varying box plots: Correction
- Matrices as look-up tables
- Axis practice, or what goes where on a graph
- Transforming the time axis
- Output to order
- Fun and fluency with functions
- Compared with ...
- MMXI and all that: Handling Roman numerals within Stata
- Graphing subsets
- The limits of sample skewness and kurtosis
- findname: Finding variables
- statsby [subsets, total]: The statsby strategy
- graph twoway: Paired, parallel, or profile plots for changes, correlations, and other comparisons
- graph box: Creating and varying box plots; Creating and varying box plots: Correction
- qsbayesi, qsbayes: I. J. Good and quasi–Bayes smoothing of categorical frequencies
- egen, rowsort, rowranks: Rowwise
- distinct: Distinct observations
- corrci, corrcii: Correlation with confidence, or Fisher's z revisited
- labmask, seqvar: Between tables and graphs
- Spineplots and their kin
- egen, by: Counting groups, especially panels
- stem, scatter, stemplot: Turning over a new leaf
- egen, by: Identifying spells
- count: Making it count
- In praise of trigonometric predictors
- cycleplot, sliceplot: Graphs for all seasons
- Time of day
- Smoothing in various directions
- qplot, displot: The protean quantile plot
- Density probability plots
- modeldiag: Graphing model diagnostics
- Graphing agreement and disagreement
- Graphing categorical and compositional data
- Graphing distributions
- matrix list, list, tabdisp, tabcount, groups: Problems with tables, Part II
- tabulate, table, tabstat, tabdisp, list: Problems with tables, Part I
- for, foreach, forvalues, levels: Problems with lists
- egen, foreach, forvalues, reshape: On structure and shape: the case of multiple responses
- egen: On getting functions to do the work
- On numbers and strings
- foreach, forvalues, for: How to face lists with fortitude
- _n, _N: How to move step by: step
- How to repeat yourself without going mad [2001;1:(1)]
