Reflecting on the year, Stata has a lot to be thankful for—we released Stata 14, celebrated 30 years of Stata, and had the pleasure of meeting and working with many great people, including our Stata Press authors.
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I hope you all have a great New Year!
Stata for the Behavioral Sciences
Michael N. Mitchell’s Stata for the Behavioral Sciences is an ideal reference for Read more…
We are happy to report another successful Stata Conference is in the books! Attendees had the opportunity to network, learn, and share their experiences with the Stata community.
We’d like to thank the organizers and everyone who participated in making this year’s conference one of the best yet. Here’s what attendees had to say on social media.
As the conference approached, the countdown began. Read more…
The Stata Conference connects you with the best and the brightest of the Stata community, offering a variety of presentations from Stata users and StataCorp experts. This year’s conference will be held July 30-31, 2015, in Columbus, Ohio, and is open to all Stata users wishing to attend.
With the conference just around the corner, we want to suggest a few things to do that will help maximize your experience. Read more…
You can install the Stata manuals on your iPad. Here’s how: install GoodReader and copy the manuals from your computer to your iPad. It takes a few minutes and will cost you about $7 to purchase the app. Read more…
What is it about round numbers that compels us to pause and reflect? We celebrate 20-year school reunions, 25-year wedding anniversaries, 50th birthdays and other similar milestones. I don’t know the answer but the Stata YouTube Channel recently passed several milestones – more than 1500 subscribers, over 50,000 video views and it was launched six months ago. We felt the need for a small celebration to mark the occasion, and I thought that I would give you a brief update.
I could tell you about re-recording the original 24 videos with a larger font to make them easier to read. I could tell you about the hardware and software that we use to record them including our experiments with various condenser and dynamic microphones. I could share quotes from some of the nice messages we’ve received. But I think it would be more fun to talk about….you!
YouTube collects data about the number of views each video receives as well as summary data about who, what, when, where, and how you are watching them. There is no need to be concerned about your privacy; there are no personal identifiers of any kind associated with these data. But the summary data are interesting, and I thought it might be fun to share some of the data with you. Read more…
The 2011 Stata Conference in Chicago ended last Friday, and a good time was had by all.
The two days had the usual wide array of talks, given by researchers in Econometrics, Sociology, Medicine, and Statistics, together with three of us from StataCorp—Bill Gould, David Drukker, and me.
The conference was held in the Gleacher center on the banks of the Chicago River in Chicago (of course), which is a fine facility. I know it sounds mundane, but the acoustics in the lecture hall were excellent, making it very easy for speakers and questions to be heard clearly. Read more…
StataCorp invites you to stop by our booth, 404, at JSM 2011, July 31 – August 3, in Miami Beach, FL. StataCorp staff and developers will be on hand to answer any questions you have about Stata, from statistics to programming to licensing. You can also register to win a copy of quad-core Stata/MP.
StataCorp is also presenting three continuing education technology workshops at JSM 2011: Read more…
Between now and the end of the year, the annual Stata Conference in the United States will take place along with five other Stata meetings in countries around the world.
Stata conferences and meetings feature talks by both Stata users and Stata developers and provide an opportunity to help shape the future of Stata development by interacting with and providing feedback directly to StataCorp personnel.
The talks range from longer presentations by invited speakers to shorter talks demonstrating the use of Stata in a variety of fields. Some talks are statistical in nature while others focus on data management, graphics, or programming in Stata. New enhancements to Stata created both by users and by StataCorp are often featured in talks.
The full schedule of upcoming meetings is Read more…
The 2011 Stata Conference will be held on July 14 and 15 at the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center. I’ve enjoyed meeting many enthusiastic Stata users at previous Stata Conferences, and I’m looking forward to seeing both familiar and new faces this year in Chicago.
The organizing committee recently posted a call for presentations on Statalist. That posting is included below. Read more…
As everyone knows, I am a big proponent of Statalist, and not just for selfish reasons, although those reasons play a role. Nearly every member of the technical staff at StataCorp — me included — are members of Statalist. Even when we don’t participate in a particular thread, we do pay attention. The discussions on Statalist play an important role concerning Stata’s development.
Statalist is a discussion group, not just a question-and-answer forum. Nonetheless, new members often use it to obtain answers to questions and that works because those questions sometimes become gist for subsequent discussions. In those cases, the questioners not only get answers, they get much more. Read more…