INTRODUCTION TO STATA

NORBERTO E. MILLADepartment of StatisticsVisayas State University

Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS)

Statistical Analysis Software (SAS)

Stata

Minitab

Statgraphics

Systat

R

Python

general-purpose statistical program with uniquefeatures not found in other packages

takes a simpler approach to statistical analyseswith a single program interface.

technical help, updates, and upgrades are possibleonline

manuals/guides (pdf documentatation) comes withStata installation

available on the three (3) major operatingsystems:

Windows, Macintosh, and Unix

comes in four flavors:

Stata/MP, Stata/SE, Stata/IC, and Small Stata

RESULTS window

VARIABLES

window

COMMAND window

PROPERTIES

window

REVIEW

window

Data files: rows (variables) and columns (observations) of information; have the .dta file extension

Do files: contain set of commands which can be executed together; have the .do file extension

(.ado files contain codes of new Stata commands)

Log files: contain a record of all commands issued and the corresponding output in the Results window (except graphs); have the .smcl (default) or .log file extension

Numeric-purely numbers; black in color

String-contains numbers and/or letters; red incolor

Value labels-internally these are numbers but canbe seen as alphabetic characters on screen; bluein color

Numbers are stored as byte, int, long, float (default), or double

byte, int, and long can hold only integers

Go to the File Menu (User-interface) and select the icon

Then browse to your preferred folder.

Click OK.

the easiest way to enter data directly into Stata is thru theData Editor (Edit).

it looks like a spreadsheet with columns as variables androws as observations.

Data>>Data Editor>>Data Editor (Edit)

Or by clicking the Data Editor (Edit) icon

File>>Import>>Excel spreadsheet (*.xls;*.xlsx)

In the dialog box, Browse to the directory where the files is saved, specify the Worksheet, and check Import first row as variable names box. Click OK.

Press Crtl+C to copy

Open Stata Editor (Edit) and press Ctrl+V to paste

Click Variable names in the dialog box.

Open an Excel File

Highlight all cells with data, including column labels (Cntrl+A)

OUTPUT

99% 52 52 Kurtosis 4.091113

95% 43 50 Skewness 1.190063

90% 40 47 Variance 46.75679

75% 33 44

Largest Std. Dev. 6.837894

50% 28 Mean 29.76543

25% 25 22 Sum of Wgt. 81

10% 23 22 Obs 81

5% 22 21

1% 21 21

Percentiles Smallest

Age of teacher

99% 5 5 Kurtosis 2.427626

95% 4 5 Skewness .8231276

90% 4 5 Variance 1.511111

75% 3 4

Largest Std. Dev. 1.229273

50% 2 Mean 2.037037

25% 1 1 Sum of Wgt. 81

10% 1 1 Obs 81

5% 1 1

1% 1 1

Percentiles Smallest

length_teach_english

Total 2.037037 1.229273

Male 2.285714 1.069045

Female 1.985075 1.261223

sex mean sd

OUTPUT

1.691482

40 and up 3.11111 1

1.268028 .9574271

30-39 1.85 2.25

1.017626 1.130388

20-29 1.78947 2.44444

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age_teach sex

RECODE of

OUTPUT

Total 2.037037 1.2292726 81

Male 2.2857143 1.069045 14

Female 1.9850746 1.2612228 67

sex Mean Std. Dev. Freq.

Summary of length_teach_english

OUTPUT

Total 1.915493 1.1051371 71

Male 2.3846154 1.0439078 13

Female 1.8103448 1.0995517 58

sex Mean Std. Dev. Freq.

Summary of length_teach_english

Highlight the entire output and right-click.

Select from one of four ways to copy output from Stata to a Word or Excel document

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Acock, A. A. (2014). A Gentle Introduction to Stata, 4th Ed. 4905 Lakeway Drive, College Station, Texas 77845: Stata Press

https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stata/modules/

https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stata/modules/graph8/intro/introduction-to-graphs-in-stata/