Stata

Stata software access, working habits, and a guide to tutorials, videos, books, and do-file practice for students in NYU Abu Dhabi methods courses.

Guides

NYUAD software downloads

• Software List — NYU login: NYUAD software for research and teaching.
• Stata Download
• Excel (Office 365) Download
  • Free to students at eligible universities
  • University email needed to sign up

File management

• How to Copy a File Path as Text from Mac Finder in Mac OS X
• How to Copy the Full Path of a File on Windows 10
• See also Operating Systems on this site.

Datasets

• Data

Miscellaneous

• Statistics

Important lessons on Stata

1. Always save your .do file
2. NEVER save changes to the .dta file unless you are absolutely sure
3. Comment, comment, comment
4. Keep track of .log files
5. When making a major change to your .do file, create a new version
6. Keep a .do file template so you don’t have to rewrite the simple stuff
7. Stata is case-sensitive

Math and programming operators in Stata

Make special note of the difference between = and ==.

+ "addition"
- "subtraction"
* "multiplication"

/ "division"

^ "power"

& "and"

| "or"

! "not"

> "greater than"

>= "greater than or equal to"

< "less than"

<= "less than or equal to"

= "assign the value"

== "equal to"

!= "not equal to"