Fast, accurate, and easy to use
With both a point-and-click interface and a powerful, intuitive command syntax, Stata is fast, accurate, and easy to use.
All analyses can be reproduced and documented for publication and review. Version control ensures statistical programs will continue to produce the same results no matter when you wrote them. See certification results and FDA document compliance for accuracy details.
.
Broad suite of statistical features
Stata puts hundreds of statistical tools at your fingertips;
- Basic tabulations and summaries,
- Case-control analysis,
- ARIMA,
- ANOVA and MANOVA,
- Linear regression,
- Time-series smoothers,
- Generalized linear models, (GLM)
- Cluster analysis,
- Contrasts and comparisons,
- Power analysis,
- Sample selection,
- more ...
- Multilevel models,
- Survival models with frailty,
- Dynamic panel data (DPD) regressions,
- SEM (Structural equation modeling),
- Binary, count, and censored outcomes,
- ARCH,
- Multiple imputation,
- Survey data,
- Treatment effects,
- Exact statistics,
- Bayesian analysis,
- more ...
Complete data-management facilities
Stata's data-management features give you complete control of all types of data.
Publication-quality graphics
Stata makes it easy to generate publication-quality, distinctly styled graphs.
You can write scripts to produce hundreds or thousands of graphs in a reproducible manner and export them to EPS or TIF for publication, to PNG for the web, or to PDF for viewing. With the integrated Graph Editor you click to change anything about your graph or to add titles, notes, lines, arrows, and text.
Extensible
Stata is so programmable that developers and users add new features every day to respond to the growing demands of today's researchers.
Matrix programming with Mata
Mata is a full-blown programming language that compiles what you type into bytecode, optimizes it, and executes it fast.
Though you don't need to program to use Stata, it is comforting to know that a fast and complete matrix programming language is an integral part of Stata. Mata is both an interactive environment for manipulating matrices and a full development environment that can produce compiled and optimized code. It includes special features for processing panel data, performs operations on real or complex matrices, provides complete support for object-oriented programming, and is fully integrated with every aspect of Stata.
Cross-platform compatible
Stata will run on Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix computers; however, our licenses are not platform specific.
That means if you have a Mac laptop and a Windows desktop, you don't need two separate licenses to run Stata. You can install your Stata license on any of the supported platforms. Stata datasets, programs, and other data can be shared across platforms without translation. You can also quickly and easily import datasets from other statistical packages, spreadsheets, and databases.