Stata Quick Reference and Index

Title
prefix commands — Quick reference for prefix commands
Description
Prefix commands operate on other Stata commands. They modify the input, modify the output,
and repeat execution of the other Stata command.
Command Reference Description
by [D] by run command on subsets of data
statsby [D] statsby same as by, but collect statistics from each run
rolling [TS] rolling run command on moving subsets and collect statistics
bootstrap [R] bootstrap run command on bootstrap samples
jackknife [R] jackknife run command on jackknife subsets of data
permute [R] permute run command on random permutations
simulate [R] simulate run command on manufactured data
svy [SVY] svy run command and adjust results for survey sampling
mi estimate [MI] mi estimate run command on multiply imputed data and adjust results
for multiple imputation (MI)
nestreg [R] nestreg run command with accumulated blocks of regressors, and
report nested model comparison tests
stepwise [R] stepwise run command with stepwise variable inclusion/exclusion
xi [R] xi run command after expanding factor variables and
interactions; for most commands, using factor variables
is preferred to using xi (see [U] 11.4.3 Factor variables)
fracpoly [R] fracpoly run command with fractional polynomials of one regressor
mfp [R] mfp run command with multiple fractional polynomial regressors
capture [P] capture run command and capture its return code
noisily [P] quietly run command and show the output
quietly [P] quietly run command and suppress the output
version [P] version run command under specified version
The last group—capture, noisily, quietly, and version—have to do with programming
Stata, and for historical reasons, capture, noisily, and quietly allow you to omit the colon.
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