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Stata Tips #18 – Fitting more complex Bayesian models with BUGS, Stan or JAGS – from inside Stata

In this post, we will look at a couple of community-contributed commands for fitting Bayesian models to your data....

Stata Tips #17 – Threshold regression for time series in Stata 15

Threshold regression for time series in Stata 15 In time series analysis, sometimes we are suspicious that relationships among...

New from the Stata blog – Web scraping NFL data into Stata

Written by Kevin Crow, Senior Software Developer, this post talks about how to install and run the new -nfl2stata-...

Stata Tips #16 – Stata 15’s new test for parameter stability in time series regression

What is it for? When you are fitting a simple time-series regression to your data, you have to make...

Stata Tips #15 – Publication ready graphics

More data is available than any point in history and often a simple graph can go a long way...

New from the Stata blog – Exploring results of nonparametric regression models

Written by Kristin MacDonald, Director of Statistical Services, this post expounds upon a previous blog post, “Nonparametric regression: Like...

New from the Stata blog – Export tabulation results to Excel – Update

Written by Kevin Crow, Senior Software Developer, this post talks about updating the community-contributed command tab2xl with tab2docx, which writes a tabulation table...

Stata Tips #14 – Non-parametric (local-linear kernel) regression in Stata 15

What is non-parametric regression? Stata version 15 now includes a command npregress, which fits a smooth function to predict...

Stata Tips #13 – Import Twitter Data to Stata

Every day a large amount of data is produced. Data take on different formats and shapes; from data points...

New from the Stata Blog – Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models for policy analysis

Written by David Schenck, Senior Econometrician, this post talks about how to estimate the parameters of a DSGE model,...