Stata News Volume 39 Number 1

Explore causal mechanisms with the mediate command. Celebrate 25 years with Stata Press. Register now for the 2024 Stata Biostatistics and Epidemiology Virtual Symposium. And more. All inside the latest issue of the Stata News.

Vol 39 No 1

In the spotlight: Causal mediation analysis

Want to disentangle causal effects? Can the average treatment effect be partially explained as a mediated effect through another variable?

You can now explore causal mechanisms with the mediate command.

Specify a variety of models for the outcome and mediator, and report potential-outcome means, direct effects, indirect effects, and total effect.

Learn how →

2024 Stata Biostatistics and Epidemiology Virtual Symposium

Join us on 22 February as experts in biostatistics and epidemiology share their latest work. Don’t miss this opportunity to uncover new perspectives and learn from these insightful and informative presentations.

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Stata Press celebrates 25 years of excellence

For Stata users, by Stata users. Stata Press is proud to celebrate 25 years of publishing books on general statistics, Stata documentation, and the Stata Journal for professional researchers of all disciplines.

You asked. We listened. Newly added features.

We introduced many new features in Stata 18. But we didn't stop there. In free updates, we've added even more: reshape is faster—much faster. New monochrome graph schemes. More in tables and reporting. And that's not all ...

See all that's new →

2024 Stata Conference: Call for presentations

Share your work with fellow Stata users and research professionals of all disciplines at the 2024 Stata Conference on 1–2 August in Portland, Oregon.

Submit your abstract →

Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Stata, Fifth Edition

You won't want to miss the new edition of this essential reference for researchers in all disciplines who wish to write maximum likelihood estimators in Stata.

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