STATA: Help, Search, Tutorials, Manuals, Website and STB

A. Colin Cameron, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Calif. - Davis

This September 1999 help sheet gives information on


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