Resources for adding features to Stata
The best way to find and add programs to Stata is to use Stata’s
internet capabilities, which allow you not only to find new additions and to
learn about them but also to install them. See
Adding community-contributed features to Stata.
You can also visit the sites below in your browser.
-
SSC archive, Boston College, USA
- The largest collection of community-contributed Stata programs for data
manipulation, statistics, and graphics, maintained by Kit Baum.
Programs can be found within Stata by keyword
search
and should be installed using the
ssc
command.
- Stata programs for
GLLAMM, USA
- Programs by Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, as part of joint work with
Andrew Pickles and Anders Skrondal, for estimating, predicting, and
simulating generalized linear latent and mixed models.
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Stata programs for exporting tables of regression results, ETH, Switzerland
- Tools by Ben Jann for creating tables of coefficients and test results.
The tables can be viewed within Stata and exported in a variety of
formats: CSV, RTF, HTML, or LaTeX. An interactive Stata tutorial can
installed in Stata by typing the command ssc install tabletutorial.
- Stata programs to run the MLwiN multilevel modelling software from within Stata, UK
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Programs by George Leckie and Chris Charlton for calling MLwiN
multilevel modelling software from within Stata and displaying results
in Stata.
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Creating maps with Stata, USA
- Instructions by Friedrich Huebler for using programs by Maurizio Pisati,
Kevin Crow, and himself for converting shapefiles and MapInfo files to
a format that can be used by the command spmap to draw maps in Stata.
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Stata programs for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables,
Indiana University, USA
- Extensive set of programs by J. Scott Long implementing many
of the procedures described in
Regression
Models for Categorical Dependent Variables Using Stata, and
Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables.
- EpiData Freeware
data entry and data documentation program, The EpiData Association,
Denmark
- Program by Jens M. Lauritsen, Michael Bruus, and Mark Myatt.
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PanelWhiz, John P. Haisken-DeNew of RWI Essen, Germany
- PanelWhiz is a Stata/SE 9.2 (or better) addition for using the
large-scale panel datasets German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and
Australian HILDA and will soon support other datasets.
PanelWhiz adds a collection of commands to Stata that allow you,
through a menu in Stata, to directly select variables,
observations, etc., and automatically create data retrievals on your
computer.
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World Health Organization software and ado-files, WHO, Switzerland
- Stata ado-files for WHO child growth standards that compute associated z-scores for children’s growth using the 2005 WHO reference population.
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Innovations for Poverty Action, USA
- Stata modules for data collection and analysis developed at IPA.
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International Center for Equity in Health|Pelotas, Brazil
- Presents equiplot.ado. Created to improve the presentation of equity data. The command allows the user to choose the order of the Y axis, to change the scale of the X axis, the size of the dots, and uses the variable labels for the legend.
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Methods and Data, Frederick J. Boehmke, University of Iowa, USA
- Stata programs and utilities including programs for duration models with selection.
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Stata programs by Stanislav Kolenikov, University of Missouri,
USA
- A large collection of Stata programs by Stas Kolenikov.
- Stata
programs by Gary King, Harvard University, USA
- Stata programs by Gary King including CLARIFY: Software for Interpreting
and Presenting Statistical Results, ReLogit: Rare Events Logistic
Regression, etc.
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Stata programs for generalized linear measurement error
models, USA
- Programs by R. J. Carroll, J. Hardin, and H. Schmiediche, fit
generalized linear models when one or more covariates are measured with
error.
- Stata
programs for Venn Diagrams, Population Pyramids, etc., Denmark
- programs by Jens M. Lauritsen to implement Venn diagrams, population
pyramids, etc.
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Stata programs by Tony Brady, Sealed Envelope Ltd.
- Programs for Hosmer–Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test, conversion
of regression output into near–publication quality tables, time
utilities to translate strings in 24-hour clock HH:MM format to elapsed
times and back again, tabulate longitudinal data at the cluster level,
count clusters in longitudinal data, etc.
- Stata
programs and links, Biostatistical Resources, USA
- Programs useful for genetic epidemiologists.
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Stata programs from Jean-Benoit Hardouin, University of Nantes
- Programs to analyze quality-of-life scales: selection of
items to form undimensional scales, validation of a supposed structure
of the items, traces of the items, modeling, graphical validation,
tests for Rasch model, and other tools.
- Stata Journal
- Stata programs regularly accompany articles in the Stata Journal.
These programs are typically most useful when you have access to the
associated arcticle, but they often have online Stata help and can be
installed regardless. See in particular
Accessing
Journal Software in the
Stata Journal FAQ.
- STB mirror sites
- Prior to the Stata Journal, Stata
Press published the Stata Technical
Bulletin (STB). Associated with every issue of the STB was
software adding new features to Stata. The best way to install these
programs is directly
from Stata; it can be done with a few mouse clicks.
