Stata_self_learning

Must-known commands

1. environment preparation

• pwd

• dir

• cd

• sysdir

• ssc hot/install

• net from/install

• findit

• use

• sysuse

• save

2. familiarize data

• describe

• br

• edit

• codebook

• inspect

• list

• label list

• label define

• label val

• label var

• tab

• tab1

• sum

• hist

• graph bar

3. data wrangling

• gen

• egen

• keep

• drop

• rename

• recode

• encode

• collapse

• merge

• append

• reshape

• misstable sum

4. exploratory data analysis

• kdensity

• scatter

• pwcorr

• corr

• ttest

• anova

5. advanced table

• tabmiss

• tabout

• tabstat

• ttable2

• estout

• outreg2

• asdoc

• fsum

• logout

• misstable patterns

• sum2docx

• corr2docx

• t2docx

• reg2docx

6. Advanced graph

• gr tw scatter

• tw lfit

• tw qfit

• tw mspline

• tw mband

• tw fpfit

• tw lowess

• tw lfitci

• tw dropline

• tw spike

• tw dot

• tw line

• tw connected

• tw tsline

• tw tsrline

• tw area

• tw bar

• tw rarea

• tw rconnected

• tw rcap

• tw rbar

• tw histogram

• tw kdensity

• tw contour

• graph matrix

• graph hbar

• graph hbox

• grpah dot

• graph pie

• set scheme

• graph export

7. advanced model

• reg

• logit

• xtreg

• mixed

• psmatch2

• ivreg

• spmap