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I made use of Stata during an assignment were a model was made for prepayment of mortgages. With Microsoft SQL Server a table was created with all relevant variables during the lifetime of the mortgage. This table was very large but could simply be read by Stata with the ODBC interface. A server with a lot of internal memory was needed because Stata wants to have the whole dataset in storage. Stata has excellent facilities for creating graphs in various formats. These facilities were used to create bubbleplots of interesting variables and for showing the performance of the models in various timeperiods.
Many statistical techniques are available in Stata. In combination with the macro language these were used to build a program that fits linear and non-linear models on the data. The user written package estout (Ben Jann, ETH Zurich) was used to combine the results of various in one report in text or latex format.
Stata is available for the Windows, Unix and Mac platforms.
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The official website of Stata. This is the starting point for all information about Stata. |
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The resource page of Stata. Here you will find links to Stata resources (how to learn Stata, examples, the SSC archive with a large collection user written Stata programs) and links to statistical subjects. |
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The Stata blog. Contains articles of Stata staff members. |
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A blog entry from 'MarginalRevolution' by Alex Tabarrok who points to the Stata resources he thinks most valuable. |
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Picture gallery that shows how to make graphs in Stata. |
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Homepage of the book 'A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics'. This book is a nice addition to the online help that sometimes overwhelms the reader by listing of so many details. |