Johan Osterberg - Product Engineer

Using do-files (a text file with the .do extension) is the preferred way of working in Stata. They are simply text files containing…

In a previous post we looked at working with log files in Stata. As discussed in that post, Stata files take the file extenstion .smcl. If…

Log files in Stata can be useful if you want to keep track of your work over time, simply because it enables you to save your session for…

In this post we'll have a look at the table command which can be used to visualise summary statistics by tabulating variables against one…

Tabulating and summarizing are common activities when exploring a new dataset. Tabulating can be useful when laying out categorical…

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master is a classic software development book written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. First…

I recently read Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability by Daniel S. Vacanti as I've heard several times that it's one of the most…

One neat feature of Stata is that you can load and work with online datasets. For example on the Stata website there are numerous links to…

In order to browse or edit data cells in Stata, the browse and edit commands are the most commonly used. The difference between those two…

Whenever you have modified a dataset in Stata that you want to save you need to do so explicitly, otherwise it will just be cleared from…