SOFTWARE/STATA

 

Linear models

Simultaneous systems

  • three-stage least squares regression
  • two-stage least squares regression
  • LIML estimation
  • GMM estimation
  • Tests of instrumental relevance
  • Tests of overidentifying restrictions
  • linear constraints within & across equations
  • models with selection

Seemingly unrelated regression

  • linear constraints within & across equations

Fractional polynomial regression

  • mean adjustment to variables
  • component-residual plots
Stochastic frontier models
  • Production and cost frontiers
  • Half-normal, exponential, and truncated-normal distributions
  • modelling of conditional heteroskedasticity

Quantile regression

  • median regression
  • least absolute deviations (LAD)
  • regression of any quantile
  • Koenker and Bassett or bootstrapped standard errors

Linear mixed models

  • multilevel random effects
  • BLUP estimation
  • Residual-error structures for linear models
  • Standard errors of BLUPs
Factor variables

  • Automatically create indicators based on categorical variables
  • Form interactions among discrete and continuous variables
  • Include polynomial terms
  • Perform contrasts of categories/levels
Marginal analysis

  • Estimated marginal means
  • Marginal and partial effects
  • Average marginal and partial effects
  • Least-squares means
  • Predictive margins
  • Adjusted predictions, means, and effects
  • Contrasts of margins*
  • Pairwise comparisons of margins*
  • Profile plots*
  • Graphs of margins and marginal effects*
Contrasts*

  • Analysis of main effects, simple effects, interaction effects, partial interaction effects, and nested effects
  • Comparisons against reference groups, of adjacent levels, or against the grand mean
  • Orthogonal polynomials
  • Helmert contrasts
  • Custom contrasts
  • ANOVA-style tests
  • Contrasts of nonlinear responses
  • Multiple-comparison adjustments
  • Balanced and unbalanced data
  • Contrasts in odds-ratio metric
  • Contrasts of means, intercepts, and slopes
  • Graphs of contrasts
  • Interaction plots

Regression

  • Ordinary, constrained, instrumental variables, censored, and errors in variables
  • influence statistics and fit diagnostics
    • Ramsey regression specification error test for omitted variables
    • variance-inflation factors
    • Cook's distance
    • COVRATIO
    • DFBETAs
    • DFITs
    • diagonal elements of hat matrix
    • residuals, standardized residuals, studentized residuals
    • standard errors of the forecast, prediction, and residuals
    • Welsch distance
  • tests for heteroskedasticity
    • Cook and Weisberg
    • Sroetzer's rank test
    • information matrix test
    • Cameron and Trevedi's decomposition
    • White's test
  • tests for autocorrelation
    • Durbin-Watson
    • Durbin-Watson d statistic
    • Breusch-Godfrey
    • ARCH LM test
  • diagnostic plots
    • added variable (leverage) plot
    • component plus residual plot
    • leverage vs. squared residual plot
    • residual vs fitted plot
    • residual vs predictor
  • Nested logit models
  • Fixed- and random-effects models for panel data
  • traditional, robust (Huber/White/sandwich), bootstrap, or jackknife standard errors
  • robust regression
  • graph estimates and confidence intervals
  • Newey–West estimator of variance
  • variance-weighted least squares
  • GLM
  • GLS for cross-sectional time-series data
  • list estimates and confidence intervals
Pairwise comparisons*
  • Compare estimated means, intercepts, and slopes
  • Compare marginal means, intercepts, and slopes
  • Balanced and unbalanced data
  • Nonlinear responses
  • Multiple-comparison adjustments: Bonferroni, Šidák, Scheffé, Tukey HSD, Duncan, and Student-Newman-Keuls adjustments
  • Group comparisons that are significant
  • Graphs of pairwise comparisons

* New in Stata 12

© Copyright StataCorp LP 1996-2011.


 
Copyright © 2011 TStat All rights reserved via Rettangolo, 12/14 - 67039 - Sulmona (AQ) - Italia