Stata Capabilities - Other Statistical Methods

New in Stata 10

Sample size and power determination
  • Two-sample test of equality of means
  • One-sample test of means
  • Two-sample test of equality of proportions
  • One-sample test of proportions
  • Repeated measurements of the outcome on each experimental unit

Nonlinear least-squares regression

Stepwise regression

  • Linear
  • Complementary log-log
  • Cox
  • GLM
  • Interval
  • Logistic
  • Conditional logistic
  • Negative binomial
  • Ordered logit
  • Ordered probit
  • Poisson
  • Probit
  • Quantile
  • Skewed logistic
  • Tobit and censored-normal
  • Exponential, Weibull, Gompertz, lognormal, log-logistic, generalized gamma

Orthogonal polynomials

Cronbach's alpha

Kappa measure of interrater agreement

Kernel-density estimation

Missing-value imputation

  • Best-subset regression

Collecting statistics into a dataset

  • Collection from any command
  • Collection of results for each group or subgroup of observations
  • Collection from user-written or "official" commands

Drawing samples from multivariate normal distribution

Creating datasets with specified correlation structure

Rolling and recursive analyses

Mathematical functions
  • Absolute value
  • Arc-cosine returning radians
  • Arc-sine returning radians
  • Arc-tangent returning radians
  • Two-argument arc-tangent
  • Sine of radians
  • Tangent of radians
  • Cosine of radians
  • Combinatorial function
  • Exponentiation
  • Natural logarithm
  • Natural log factorial
  • ln(gamma(x)) (ln((x−1)!) for integer x)
  • Base 10 logarithm
  • Modulus of x with respect to y
  • Square root
  • Digamma function
  • Trigamma function
  • Hyperbolic tangent
  • Log of odds ratio
  • Inverse log of odds ratio
  • Complementary log-log
  • Inverse complementary log-log
  • Ceiling
  • Floor
  • Minimum
  • Maximum
  • Relative difference
  • Running sum
  • Sign

Statistical functions

  • Binomial distribution
  • Cumulative and inverse F distribution
  • F density
  • Incomplete gamma
  • Inverse incomplete gamma
  • Gamma density
  • Incomplete beta
  • Noncentral beta density
  • Inverse binomial
  • Cumulative and inverse chi-squared
  • Inverse cumulative noncentral chi-squared
  • Cumulative noncentral chi-squared
  • Standard normal density
  • Cumulative normal
  • Inverse cumulative normal
  • Bivariate normal
  • Cumulative bivariate normal
  • Student's 2-tailed t distribution
  • t density
  • Inverse 2-tailed cumulative t distribution
  • Noncentrality parameter L for noncentral chi-squared
  • First and second derivatives of gamma
  • Noncentral F

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