Stata - Capabilities

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Data management
data transformations, match-merge, ODBC, XML, by-group processing, append files, sort, row–column transposition, labeling; more ...
Basic statistics
summaries, cross-tabulations, correlations, t tests, equality-of-variance tests, tests of proportions, confidence intervals, more ...
Linear models
regression; bootstrap, jackknife, and robust Huber/White/sandwich variance estimates; instrumental variables; three-stage least squares; constraints; quantile regression; GLS; more ...
Generalized linear models (GLMs)
ten link functions, user-defined links, seven distributions, ML and IRLS estimation, nine variance estimators, seven residuals, more ...

Binary, count, and limited dependent variables
logistic, probit, tobit; Poisson and negative-binomial; conditional, multinomial, ordered, rank-ordered, and stereotype logistic; multinomial probit; zero-inflated and zero-truncated count models; selection models; marginal effects; more ...
Panel data/cross-sectional time-series
random- and fixed-effects with robust standard errors, linear mixed models, random-effects probit, GEE, random- and fixed-effects Poisson, Arellano–Bond, and instrumental variables regression; AR(1) disturbances; more ...
Resampling and simulation methods
bootstrapping, jackknife and Monte Carlo simulation; permutation tests; more ...
ANOVA/MANOVA
balanced and unbalanced designs; factorial, nested, and mixed designs; repeated measures; more ...
Survey methods
sampling weights, multistage designs; stratification, poststratification; deff; means, proportions, ratios, totals; summary tables; bootstrap, jackknife, and linearization-based variance estimation; regression, instrumental variables, probit; more ...
Cluster analysis
hierarchical clustering; kmeans and kmedian nonhierarchical clustering; dendrograms; stopping rules; user-extensible analyses; more ...

Nonparametric methods
Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney, Wilcoxon signed ranks and Kruskal–Wallis tests; Spearman and Kendall correlations; Kolmogorov–Smirnov tests; exact binomial CIs; more ...
Multivariate methods
factor analysis; principal components; rotation; multidimensional scaling; Procrustean analysis; correspondence analysis; biplots; dendrograms; user-extensible analyses; more ...
Matrix programming - Mata
interactive sessions, large-scale development projects, matrix inversions, decompositions, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, LAPACK engine, real and complex numbers, string matrices, interface to Stata datasets and matrices, more ...
Multilevel mixed-effects model
continuous, binary, and count outcomes; two-, three-, and multi-way random-intercepts and random-coefficients models; crossed random effects; ML and REML estimation; BLUPs of effects and fitted values; hierarchical models; more ...
Graphics
line charts, scatterplots, bar charts, pie charts, hi–lo charts, regression diagnostic graphs, survival plots, nonparametric smoothers, distribution Q–Q plots, more ...
Survival analysis
Kaplan–Meier and Nelson–Aalen estimators, Cox regression (frailty); parametric models (frailty); hazards; time-varying covariates; left and right censoring, Weibull, exponential, and Gompertz analysis; more ...
Tools for epidemiologists
standardization of rates, case–control, cohort, matched case–control, Mantel–Haenszel, pharmacokinetics, ROC analysis, ICD-9-CM; more ...

Time series
ARIMA, ARCH/GARCH, VAR, VECM, correlograms, periodograms, white-noise tests, unit root tests, Holt–Winters smoothers, Haver Analytics data, rolling and recursive estimation, more ...
Maximum likelihood
user-specified functions; NR, DFP, BFGS, BHHH; OIM, OPG, robust, bootstrap, and jackknife matrices; Wald tests; survey data; numeric or analytic derivatives; more ...
Model testing and post-estimation support
Wald tests; LR tests; linear and nonlinear combinations, tests, and predictions; marginal effects; adjusted means; Hausman tests; more ...

Other statistical methods
sample size and power, nonlinear regression, imputations, stepwise regression, statistical and mathematical functions, more ...

Programming language
adding new commands, command scripting, if, while, command parsing, debugging, menu and dialog box programming, markup and control language; more ...
Transforms and normality tests
Box–Cox transforms, power transforms, Shapiro–Wilk and Shapiro–Francia tests, more ...
Internet capabilities
ability to install new commands, web updating, web file sharing, latest Stata news, more ...
Accessibility
Section 508 compliance, accessibility for persons with disabilities, more ...
Sample session
A sample session of Stata
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