A brand new replace to StataNow has simply been launched. With new statistical options and interface enhancements, there’s something for everybody. We’re excited to share the brand new options with you.
Native common remedy results. When people don’t adjust to their assigned remedy, it will not be attainable to estimate a remedy impact for all the inhabitants. We have to account for attainable endogeneity that arises due to unobserved components which may be associated to the selection of the remedy. With the brand new lateffects command, we estimate the native common remedy impact (LATE) for individuals who adjust to their assigned remedy. The LATE, also called the complier common remedy impact, will be estimated whether or not your end result of curiosity is steady, binary, rely, or fractional.
Variance–covariance matrix (VCE) additions for linear fashions. Stata’s mostly used linear regression instructions now include a richer set of VCE choices, permitting customary errors and confidence intervals which can be strong in much more conditions. As an example, now you can estimate Driscoll–Kraay customary errors when becoming a mannequin with xtreg, fe. And enhanced bias correction together with HC3 customary errors with clustering and the inference adjustment of Hansen is now accessible with regress, areg, xtreg, didregress, and xtdidregress. You may estimate multiway cluster–strong customary errors with ivregress. And extra.
Do-file Editor change historical past ribbon. The Do-file Editor can now point out that modifications have been made to a line by utilizing coloured markers within the change historical past ribbon situated within the margin. Two markers point out modifications to a line: modified and reverted to unique. A modified marker signifies {that a} change was made to a line. A reverted-to-original marker signifies {that a} change was made to a line, saved, after which reverted to its unique state. You may select whether or not the change historical past ribbon is proven and customise the colours for use for every sort of marker.
Improved variable identify truncation within the Information Editor. Within the Information Editor grid, now you can choose whether or not variable names might be truncated on the finish (the default), within the center, or one to 4 characters earlier than the tip.
As well as, the next new options can be found each in StataNow 19 and in Stata 19:
Copy worth labels throughout frames. Now you can copy a price label from one body to a different body with the brand new fromframe() and toframe() choices of label copy. And with the brand new body putlabel command, you’ll be able to copy a number of worth labels from the present body into a number of different frames.
Management observe wrapping in tables. Now you can specify whether or not notes underneath a desk ought to wrap on the desk’s width when exporting to SMCL and plain textual content by utilizing the brand new gather model smcl and gather model txt instructions. Specialised instructions for creating tables—desk, dtable, etable, and lcstats—have new choices for specifying whether or not notes underneath the desk ought to wrap.
Enhanced syntax highlighting. Syntax highlighting within the Do-file Editor now helps macros inside strings.
You may see all the brand new options at https://www.stata.com/new-in-stata/options/. And you may check out these version-specific additions by typing replace all within the Command window in StataNow 19 and in Stata 19.
