Speaking Stata: Shading Zones on Time Series and Other Plots

Stata Time-series Reference Manual

Speaking Stata: Graphing distributions

Graphing univariate distributions is central to both statistical graphics, in general, and Stata’s graphics, in particular. Now that Stata 8 is out, a review of official and user-written commands is timely. The emphasis here is on going beyond what is obviously and readily available, with pointers to minor and major trickery and various user-written commands. For plotting histogram-like display...

Stata 10 (Time Series and Forecasting)

Stata 10 is a powerful, versatile, and flexible statistical package with a wide range of userfriendly and accurate time series analytical and forecasting commands. It was released in June 2007, about two years after Stata 9 appeared. Prospective users want to know what features the package offers, while veteran users want to know what is novel about the latest version(s). This review addresses ...

Speaking Stata: Graphing categorical and compositional data

Abstract. A variety of graphs have been devised for categorical and compositional data, ranging from widely familiar to more unusual displays. Both official Stata commands and user-written programs are available. After a stacking trick for binary responses is explained, bar charts and related displays for cross-tabulations are discussed in detail. Tips and tricks are introduced for plotting cum...

Speaking Stata: Problems with tables, Part I

Tables in some form or another are part and parcel of data management and analysis. The main general-purpose tabulation commands, tabulate, table, and tabstat, are reviewed and compared. When these do not provide a tabulation solution, one key strategy is to prepare the material for tabulation as a set of variables, after which the table itself can be presented with tabdisp or list. This is the...