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24 [P] fvexpand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Expand factor varlists [P] macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macro definition and manipulation [P] program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Define and manipulate programs [P] return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Return saved results Program control [U] Section 18.11.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Version [P] capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Capture return code [P] continue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Break out of loops [P] error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Display generic error message and exit [P] foreach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loop over items [P] forvalues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loop over consecutive values [P] if . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . if programming command [P] version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Version control [P] while . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Looping Parsing and program arguments [U] Section 18.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program arguments [P] confirm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Argument verification [P] gettoken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Low-level parsing [P] levelsof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Levels of variable [P] numlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parse numeric lists [P] syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parse Stata syntax [P] tokenize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Divide strings into tokens Console output [P] dialog programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dialog programming [P] display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Display strings and values of scalar expressions [P] smcl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stata Markup and Control Language [P] tabdisp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Display tables Commonly used programming commands [P] byable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Make programs byable [P] #delimit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Change delimiter [P] exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exit from a program or do-file [R] fvrevar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Factor-variables operator programming command [P] mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark observations for inclusion [P] matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction to matrix commands [P] more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pause until key is pressed [P] nopreserve option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . nopreserve option [P] preserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preserve and restore data [P] quietly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quietly and noisily perform Stata command [P] scalar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scalar variables [P] smcl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stata Markup and Control Language [P] sortpreserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sort within programs [P] timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Time sections of code by recording and reporting time spent [TS] tsrevar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Time-series operator programming command
25 Debugging [P] pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program debugging command [P] timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Time sections of code by recording and reporting time spent [P] trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Debug Stata programs Advanced programming commands [P] automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Automation [P] break . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suppress Break key [P] char . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Characteristics [M-2] class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Object-oriented programming (classes) [P] class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class programming [P] class exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exit class-member program and return result [P] classutil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class programming utility [P] estat programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Controlling estat after user-written commands [P] estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manage estimation results [P] file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Read and write ASCII text and binary files [P] findfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Find file in path [P] include . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Include commands from file [P] macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macro definition and manipulation [P] macro lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manipulate lists [R] ml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maximum likelihood estimation [M-5] moptimize( ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Model optimization [M-5] optimize( ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Function optimization [P] plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Load a plugin [P] postfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Save results in Stata dataset [P] predict . . Obtain predictions, residuals, etc., after estimation programming command [P] program properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Properties of user-defined programs [P] return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preserve saved results [P] rmcoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Remove collinear variables [P] robust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robust variance estimates [P] serset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Create and manipulate sersets [D] snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Save and restore data snapshots [P] unab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unabbreviate variable list [P] unabcmd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unabbreviate command name [P] varabbrev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Control variable abbreviation [P] viewsource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . View source code Special-interest programming commands [R] bstat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Report bootstrap results [MV] cluster programming subroutines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Add cluster-analysis routines [MV] cluster programming utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cluster-analysis programming utilities [R] fvrevar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Factor-variables operator programming command [P] matrix dissimilarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Compute similarity or dissimilarity measures [MI] mi select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Programmer’s alternative to mi extract [ST] st is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Survival analysis subroutines for programmers [SVY] svymarkout . . . Mark observations for exclusion on the basis of survey characteristics [MI] technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Details for programmers [TS] tsrevar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Time-series operator programming command File formats [P] file formats .dta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Description of .dta file format
Page 1 and 2: STATA QUICK REFERENCE AND INDEX REL
Page 3: i Table of contents Combined subjec
Page 6 and 7: 2 Inputting and saving data [GS] Ch
Page 8 and 9: 4 [D] changeeol . . . . . . . . . .
Page 10 and 11: 6 [R] estimates title . . . . . . .
Page 12 and 13: 8 [G] graph twoway lowess . . . . .
Page 14 and 15: 10 Graph schemes [G] schemes intro
Page 16 and 17: 12 [MV] clustermat . . . . . . . .
Page 18 and 19: 14 [MV] scoreplot . . . . . . . . .
Page 20 and 21: 16 [R] mprobit . . . . . . . . . .
Page 22 and 23: 18 Nonparametric statistics [R] kde
Page 24 and 25: 20 [R] predict . . . . . . . . . .
Page 26 and 27: 22 [TS] tsreport . . . . . . . . .
Page 30 and 31: 26 Mata [M] Mata Reference Manual .
Page 32 and 33: Title estimation commands — Quick
Page 34 and 35: 30 estimation commands — Quick re
Page 40 and 41: Title format — Quick reference fo
Page 42 and 43: Title missing values — Quick refe
Page 44 and 45: 40 postestimation commands — Quic
Page 52 and 53: Title prefix commands — Quick ref
Page 54 and 55: Title reading data — Quick refere
Page 57 and 58: Title Acronym glossary 2SIV 2SLS 3S
Page 59 and 60: Acronym glossary 55 IC ICD-9 IIA i.
Page 61 and 62: Acronym glossary 57 QDA QML rc RCT
Page 63 and 64: Vignettes index 59 Vignettes index
Page 65 and 66: Author index 61 Author index A Aale
Page 67 and 68: Author index 63 Blackburne III, E.
Page 69 and 70: Author index 65 Conover, W. J., [R]
Page 71 and 72: Author index 67 Feinleib, M., [XT]
Page 73 and 74: Author index 69 Green, P. E., [MV]
Page 75 and 76: Author index 71 Hipel, K. W., [TS]
Page 77 and 78: Author index 73 Klein, J. P., [ST]
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Author index 75 Lu, J. Y., [TS] pra
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Author index 77 Muirhead, R. J., [M
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Author index 79 Ponce de Leon, A.,
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Author index 81 Schonlau, M., [R] g
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Author index 83 ter Bogt, T., [MV]
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Author index 85 Wichern, D. W., con
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Subject index 87 Subject index ! (n
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Subject index 89 args command, [P]
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Subject index 91 bias corrected and
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Subject index 93 c(minbyte) c-class
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Subject index 95 choice models, con
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Subject index 97 cointegration, con
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Subject index 99 constrained estima
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Subject index 101 cumsp command, [T
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Subject index 103 describe, continu
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Subject index 105 DLL, [P] plugin D
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Subject index 107 end-of-line chara
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Subject index 109 estat, continued
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Subject index 111 FEVD, [TS] Glossa
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Subject index 113 fsave, window sub
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Subject index 115 graph, continued
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Subject index 117 Harrell’s C, [S
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Subject index 119 Im-Pesaran-Shin t
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Subject index 121 invfft() function
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Subject index 123 label values, [P]
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Subject index 125 loading, [MV] Glo
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Subject index 127 markers, [G] mark
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Subject index 129 mband, graph twow
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Subject index 131 missing data, [MI
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Subject index 133 mvdecode command,
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Subject index 135 number to string
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Subject index 137 parameter trace f
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Subject index 139 polytomous logist
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Subject index 141 proportions, [R]
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Subject index 143 rc built-in varia
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Subject index 145 return, [M-2] ret
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Subject index 147 RVI, see relative
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Subject index 149 set, continued fa
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Subject index 151 Sneath and Sokel
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Subject index 153 Stata, continued
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Subject index 155 stset command for
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Subject index 157 svy: truncreg com
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Subject index 159 tests, continued
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Subject index 161 truncating real n
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Subject index 163 variables, contin
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Subject index 165 weights, continue
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