Stata 12 manuals

Stata Programming Reference Manual

Copyright 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-59718-091-7
Pages: 486; paperback
Price $45.00
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Overview of the Stata 12 documentation
Table of contents
Subject table of contents (pdf)
Introduction to programming manual (pdf)
Subject and author index (pdf)
Download the datasets used in this manual

Table of contents

intro (pdf) Introduction to programming manual


automation Automation


break Suppress Break key
byable Make programs byable


capture Capture return code
char Characteristics
class Class programming
class exit Exit class-member program and return result
classutil Class programming utility
comments Add comments to programs
confirm Argument verification
continue Break out of loops
creturn Return c-class values


_datasignature Determine whether data have changed
#delimit Change delimiter
dialog programming Dialog programming
discard Drop automatically loaded programs
display Display strings and values of scalar expressions


ereturn Post the estimation results
error Display generic error message and exit
estat programming Controlling estat after user-written commands
_estimates Manage estimation results
exit Exit from a program or do-file


file Read and write ASCII text and binary files
file formats .dta Description of .dta file format
findfile Find file in path
foreach Loop over items
forvalues Loop over consecutive values
fvexpand Expand factor varlists


gettoken Low-level parsing


if if programming command
include Include commands from file


levelsof Levels of variable


macro Macro definition and manipulation
macro lists Manipulate lists
makecns Constrained estimation
mark Mark observations for inclusion
matlist Display a matrix and control its format
matrix Introduction to matrix commands
matrix accum Form cross-product matrices
matrix define Matrix definition, operators, and functions
matrix dissimilarity Compute similarity or dissimilarity measures
matrix eigenvalues Eigenvalues of nonsymmetric matrices
matrix get Access system matrices
matrix mkmat Convert variables to matrix and vice versa
matrix rownames Name rows and columns
matrix score Score data from coefficient vectors
matrix svd Singular value decomposition
matrix symeigen Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of symmetric matrices
matrix utility List, rename, and drop matrices
more Pause until key is pressed


nopreserve option nopreserve option
numlist Parse numeric lists


pause Program debugging command
plugin Load a plugin
postfile Save results in Stata dataset
_predict Obtain predictions, residuals, etc., after estimation programming command
preserve Preserve and restore data
program Define and manipulate programs
program properties Properties of user-defined programs


quietly Quietly and noisily perform Stata command


_return Preserve saved results
return Return saved results
_rmcoll Remove collinear variables
rmsg Return messages
_robust Robust variance estimates


scalar Scalar variables
serset Create and manipulate sersets
signestimationsample Determine whether the estimation sample has changed
sleep Pause for a specified time
smcl Stata Markup and Control Language
sortpreserve Sort within programs
syntax Parse Stata syntax
sysdir Query and set system directories


tabdisp Display tables
timer Time sections of code by recording and reporting time spent
tokenize Divide strings into tokens
trace Debug Stata programs


unab Unabbreviate variable list
unabcmd Unabbreviate command name


varabbrev Control variable abbreviation
version Version control
viewsource View source code


while Looping
window programming Programming menus and windows


Subject and author index (pdf)


Subject table of contents (pdf)