Stata tutorial

A great way to get started with Stata is using its menus.

The first part of this Tutorial Series introduced you to Stata’s windows.  You can now begin learning how to use Stata to work with data.

Across the top are 8 tabs: File, Edit, Data, Graphics, Statistics, User, Window, and Help.

We will not go through every option within the Stata menus. Instead, we’ll highlight a few options to get you started. In this article, we’ll start with three of the most useful menus: File, Data, and Help, along with those helpful icons under the menus.

In our next article, we’ll look at two more: Graphics and Statistics.
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So, you want to get started with Stata?

Good choice!

At The Analysis Factor we recommend first becoming proficient in one statistical software. Then once you’ve progressed up to learning Stage 3 skills, adding a second statistical software. Whether it’s your first, second, or 5th statistical software, Stata has a lot that makes it worth learning.

When I first started using Stata, I remember being confused by the variety of menus and windows, the strange syntax of the code, the way it handled datasets… and what the heck is a do file? (more…)

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