4th Edition
Stata Tips, Fourth Edition, Volume II: Tips 120-152
Stata Tips provides concise and insightful notes about commands, features, and tricks that will help you obtain a deeper understanding of Stata.
The book comprises the contributions of the Stata community that have appeared in the Stata Journal since 2003. Each tip is a brief article that provides practical advice on using Stata. With tips covering a breadth of topics in statistics, graphics, data management, and programming, both new and experienced Stata users are sure to find tips that will be useful in their research.
Introducing Stata tips
Stata tip 120: Certifying subroutines
M. L. Buis
Stata tip 121: Box plots side by side
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 122: Variable bar widths in two-way graphs
B. Jann
Stata tip 123: Spell boundaries
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 124: Passing temporary variables to subprograms
M. L. Buis
Stata tip 125: Binned residual plots for assessing the fit of regression models for binary outcomes
J. Kasza
Stata tip 126: Handling irregularly spaced high-frequency transactions data
C. F. Baum and S. Bibo
Stata tip 127: Use capture noisily groups
R. B. Newson
Stata tip 128: Marginal effects in log-transformed models: A trade application
L. J. Uberti
Stata tip 129: Efficiently processing textual data with Stata’s new Unicode features
A. Koplenig
Stata tip 130: 106610 and all that: Date variables that need to be fixed.
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 131: Custom legends for graphs that use translucency
T. P. Morris
Stata tip 132: Tiny tricks and tips on ticks
N. J. Cox and V. Wiggins
Stata tip 133: Box plots that show median and quartiles only
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 134: Multiplicative and marginal interaction effects in nonlinear models
W. H. Dow
E. C. Norton
and J. T. Donahoe
Stata tip 135: Leaps and bounds
M. L. Buis
Stata tip 136: Between-group comparisons in a scatterplot with weighted markers
A. Musau
Stata tip 137: Interpreting constraints on slopes of rank-deficient design matrices
D. Christodoulou
Stata tip 138: Local macros have local scope
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 139: The by() option of graph can work better than graph combine
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 140: Shorter or fewer category labels with graph bar
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 141: Adding marginal spike histograms to quantile and cumulative distribution plots
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 142: joinby is the real merge m:m
D. Mazrekaj and J. Wursten
Stata tip 143: Creating donut charts in Stata
A. Musau
Stata tip 144: Adding variable text to graphs that use a by() option
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 145: Numbering weeks within months
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 146: Using margins after a Poisson regression model to estimate the number of events prevented by an intervention
M. Falcaro
R. B. Newson
and P. Sasieni
Erratum: Stata tip 145: Numbering weeks within months
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 147: Porting downloaded packages between machines
R. B. Newson
Stata tip 148: Searching for words within strings
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 149: Weighted estimation of fixed-effects and first-differences models
J. Gardner
Stata tip 150: When is it appropriate to xtset a panel dataset with panelvar only? C. Lazzaro
Stata tip 151: Puzzling out some logical operators
N. J. Cox
Stata tip 152: if and if: When to use the if qualifier and when to use the if command
N. J. Cox and C. B. Schechter
Biography
Nicholas Cox is a statistically minded geographer at Durham University. He contributes talks, postings, FAQ, and programs to the Stata user community. He has also coauthored 16 commands in official Stata. He was an author of several inserts in the Stata Technical Bulletin and is Editor-at-Large of the Stata Journal.
