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Remember to peruse "Economics at UCT: A Toolkit" at http://bit.ly/UCTEcosToolkit , which provides tips for studying postgrad Economics at UCT. Today, we're highlighting how you can get online help for Stata.
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Questions about Stata syntax, programming and output are addressed on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/stata
The official FAQs ( http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/ ) are extremely useful as well.
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The official FAQs ( http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/ ) are extremely useful as well.
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Statalist ( http://www.statalist.org/ ) is the place to go. Stata developers from StataCorp and many experienced users are leading members. Questions cover basic Stata use, Stata programming, and statistical practice. Before posting, do study the FAQ Advice ( https://www.statalist.org/forums/help ).
StataCorp also maintains a YouTube training channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/statacorp
Every copy of Stata comes with Stata’s complete PDF documentation. The PDF documentation may be accessed from within Stata by selecting Help > PDF documentation, or by typing "help -command-".
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Every copy of Stata comes with Stata’s complete PDF documentation. The PDF documentation may be accessed from within Stata by selecting Help > PDF documentation, or by typing "help -command-".
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The full PDF documentation is also available online, e.g., the User Guide ( http://www.stata.com/manuals14/u.pdf ) and the Reference ( http://www.stata.com/manuals14/r.pdf ) manuals are usually a good place to start for general commands.
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To access the help files for specific commands, do a Google search for the command + "Stata", or form the url as http://www.stata.com/help.cgi ? appended with the command name, like regress: http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?regress .
This thread was mostly copied from https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/a/794/68965 .
To access the help files for specific commands, do a Google search for the command + "Stata", or form the url as http://www.stata.com/help.cgi ? appended with the command name, like regress: http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?regress .
This thread was mostly copied from https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/a/794/68965 .
