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program searches. Stata maintains many of these examples and many
are available from third parties.
Program
Stata is available on the three major operating systems: Windows,
Macintosh, and Unix. In addition, there are several flavors of Stata
available. These include Stata/MP, Stata/SE, Stata/IC, and Small
Stata. These versions differ in the type of machine they can run on
and the size of datasets they can handle. Stata/MP is for multiproces-
sor machines, while Stata/SE is for single processor machines. Both
of these are considered the professional versions of the software and
both handle the largest datasets.
Stata/IC, which was formerly known as Intercooled Stata, is the
intermediate-sized program, while Small Stata handles the smallest
of datasets and is the slowest of the versions. Small Stata is primar-
ily used for educational purposes. If you haven't already purchased a
Stata program, you should know they are priced differently with the
greater capacity programs obviously costing more. In addition, if you
haven't purchased the program, check with your institution. It may
have a site license agreement with Stata that would make the program
available to you at a greatly reduced price. Finally, pricing is different
based on the type of purchaser.
Printed documentation also is available. This documentation
includes manuals on using Stata with specific operating systems: a
Base Reference Manual (four volumes) or reference manuals on spe-
cific subjects, such as a graphics manual, data management manual,
programming manual, survey data manual, as well as several oth-
ers. This documentation comes with the program as PDF files and is
linked to the Help menu.
Obviously, such an extensive set of manuals is not meant to be read
through, but is to be used as a reference source. Although I will be
going through many of the basic functions of the program to start
with, it's a good idea to read through the
Getting Started with Stata
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manual for your specific operating system. This manual is available
for either Windows, Macintosh, or Unix depending on which version
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Stata Press. 2011.
Getting Started with Stata.
College Station: Texas.
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