Stata Help

Tutorials

The purpose of this page is to really explore different actions or options that Stata offers. Click on each link below to view the tutorial.

• Data
  • Get descriptives
  • Saving your data as you go: the snapshot feature
  • Basic data entry
  • The variables manager
  • Adding value labels to numeric variables
  • Numeric categorical to string/string to numeric categorical
  • Use your variables to calculate new ones
  • Remove cases or variables from a dataset
  • Make wide data long/long data wide: the reshape command
  • Variable types and what they mean
  • Calculating Z-scores from raw scores
• Scale and interrater reliability
  • Kappa (inter-rater reliability)
  • Alpha (scale reliability)
• Stata Specific Quirks, Tips and Tricks
  • The basics of Stata's syntax
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Do files
  • Logging your work
  • The working directory and changing directories
  • Making dictionary files for use with raw data formats
  • Calculating estimated standard error (the vce option)
  • Weighting your data
• Visualizing Your Data
  • Creating histograms
  • Tabulation
  • Families of options for graphs
  • Make a graph using the menu