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In this post, we will look at a couple of community-contributed commands for fitting Bayesian models to your data. Stata 14 introduced Bayesian functionality for the firs...

Threshold regression for time series in Stata 15 In time series analysis, sometimes we are suspicious that relationships among variables might change at some time. The ne...

What is it for? When you are fitting a simple time-series regression to your data, you have to make an assumption that indpendent (exogenous) variables in the regression ...

More data is available than any point in history and often a simple graph can go a long way in presenting complex relationships between data elements. Stata offers an imp...

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

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

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

Every day a large amount of data is produced. Data take on different formats and shapes; from data points to images and written words. A big source of data is social medi...

Written by David Schenck, Senior Econometrician, this post talks about how to estimate the parameters of a DSGE model, how to create an interpret an impulse response, and...

Stata can now export any graphs to SVG. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a file format with a lot of advantages for Stata users. In this post, we will outline what makes...