STATA HELP
Stata has extensive help once you are in the program.
help gives an overview of help
help contents
gives many pages of commands
[I have saved this as the text-file contents.txt]
help regress
for example gives help on the stata command regress for linear regression
STATA SEARCH
This can give more results than Stata help,
including
search statistics for example
gives summary of commands for statistical analysis
search simulation for example gives information
oin simulation
STATA TUTORIALS
Stata gives several tutorials that demonstrate various modules.
tutorial contents lists available
turorials
tutorial survival for example,
demonstrates survival commands
Unfortunately unless you use a graphic interface for Stata these tutorials
do not show the graphs.
STATA MANUALS
The documentation is extensive.
The starting point is the User's Guide. You should really look at this.
e.g. [U] chapter 17 means User's Guide chapter 17
The Reference Guide is broken into four volumes
e.g. [R] matrix means Reference manual Matrix commands which is in
Reference H-O (vol. 2).
The first of the reference manuals has a useful list of contents at
the front.
STATA WEB-SITE
The website has a lot of information.
This includes summary of what Stata does.
For answers to frequently asked questions see http://www.stata.com/support/
Within Stata using search will cross-reference material on this website.
STATA BULLETIN
The Stata Bulletin has more recent code that has not yet appeared in
Stata.
The website http://www.stata.com/support/stb/faq
has an overview.
The programs can be downloaded free of charge.
But to read the accompanying article requires purchase of the Stata
bulletin.
Within Stata using search will cross-reference material in the Stata
bulletin.
For further information on how to use Stata go to
http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/cameron