STATA

NYUAD Software Downloads

• Student Software (Scroll to Stata)

• Excel (Microsoft 365) via Intranet

Learning Stata Resources

• NYUAD Stata Resources Page

• Stata 18 Graphical User Interface (GUI) Overview

• Resources for learning Stata from Stata Corp

• Stata Corp YouTube Channel

• The Do’s and Don’ts of a Do-file∗ Emmanuel Milet

• Stata Cheatsheets (inspired by RStudio's Cheatsheets)

• Princeton University Online Stata Tutorial 

• Useful Commands in Stata - Lucas Rosso

• Stata Tutorial - Germán Rodríguez

• UCLA Advanced Research Computing - Stata

• The Stata Guide on Medium (Paywall)

• Introduction to Stata - Social Science Computing Cooperative UW-Madison

• Interpreting Log Transformations in a Linear Model | UVA Library

File Management

• How to Copy a File Path as Text from Mac Finder in Mac OS X

• How to Copy the Full Path of a File on Windows 10

Miscellaneous

• Z Score Table Open Textbook

  • Z Score Table PDF

• Formula Sheet from University of Michigan

Datasets

• Data

Important Lessons on Stata

1. Always save your .do file

2. NEVER save changes to the .dta file unless you are absolutely sure

3. Comment, comment, comment

4. Keep track of .log files

5. When making a major change to your .do file, create a new version 

6. Keep a .do file template so you don't have to rewrite the simple stuff

7. Stata is case-sensitive

Math and Programming Operators in Stata

Make special note of the difference between = and ==.

+  "addition"

-  "subtraction"

*  "multiplication"

/  "division"

^  "power"

&  "and"

| "or"

!  "not"

>  "greater than"

>= "greater than or equal to"

<  "less than"

<= "less than or equal to"

=  "assign the value"

== "equal to"

!= "not equal to"