Bootstrapping in parallel

Using Stata, is there any convenient way to bootstrap in parallel? Although Stata/MP does some things in parallel, it seems it still bootstr...

Syntax Question

Dear all, I have the following data merged (industry level data and trade at the industry level at the same level of disaggregation). I wa...

Repeated time values within panel when trying to create new variable

Hi, I am trying to create a variable called "fempstat" which measures an individual's employment status in the next month. I h...

Date format using month and year

Hi, I am trying to make a new variable called "date" using the month and year in my dataset. The variable "month" is a b...

Generalized Leontief variable cost function

Dear All, I am having difficulty to estimate in Stata a generalized Leontief variable cost function with 3 variable inputs and 4 quasi-fix...

Plotting heterogenous (interaction) effect in event study plot

I have the following dataset, Code: * Example generated by -dataex-. For more info, type help dataex clear input float(id monthly indepe...

nonest outside xtreg

The -xtreg- command has an undocumented -nonest- option which permits the use of cluster() when the cluster variable is not nested within th...

FRAPPLY: module to nondestructively apply command(s) to a frame

Dear Statalisters, Thanks to Kit Baum, a new command frapply is now available in SSC. Beginning with version 16, Stata can hold multipl...

Stata not directing to correct PDF section after -help topic-

Hello everyone, Anyone having trouble in accessing the *.pdf manuals from Stata after the -help topic- command? For example. After my comm...

First Stage Regression - Huge F-statistic

Hello all, I use a stacked first differences model to estimate the impact of globalization on unemployment in Western Europe. • Panel da...

Including breakpoint dates in SVAR command

Dear Stata users, I would like to know how to specify the code for a SVAR model in a such way that includes breakpoint equations or time d...

Combining categories

I would like to combine two categories for one of my variables but I am not sure whether there is a test I could run to justify combining th...

issues with global macro windows code on mac

I am trying to use a Master do file that someone has sent me from their windows computer. I have a Mac and the project that was sent to me w...

Error: cannot compute an improvement -- discontinuous region encountered

Good night, I am trying to perform a probit ordered model with panel data and the following error appears: cannot compute an improvement -...

Survival analysis - data management query

Dear all, I have two variables in my dataset namely "date of birth" "date of death" and would like to do survival anal...

Stock volatility

Hi, I need to calculate stock volatility using CRSP daily stock returns. According to the article, it is calculated using the square root ...

Regression with Interaction Terms and Post-Estimation Interpretation

Dear Statalist community, I am running the following code to initially generate a regression output: Code: xtreg y c.a##c.b $controlvar...

Splitting An Instance into two existing attributes

I have a dataset that includes two variables called "NAME" and "TITLE". NAME should simply be an individual's birt...

Specific period Buy and Hold returns for every day

Hello everyone, I have daily panel data with prices and returns for several companies. My question is, how do I calculate Buy and Hold re...

Getting regression results for my last dummy

Hello everyone, I have 3 dummy variables where I have created 2 variables one is called low_dev and the other one is called high_dev. Now ...

regression coefficient calculation not correct

Hello everyone, My coefficient for my Construction costs index is too high I have correct construction costs index by dividing it by the c...

Latitude and Longitude to perform geonear and the case of 90 to -90

To perform geo near, we require latitude and longitude. For this do we use the coordinates information from the shapefile or create the cent...

(ssc) esttab and stcrreg: option equations() invalid

For some reason esttab (an ssc package) will not let me combine these two outputs: Code: . stcrreg contrib vx1adultHazRtHat, compete(dos...

lazy man's research

I have some info culled from international registries of non-US rehab medicine clinical trials one of the questions of interest is whether...

spmap polygon sepearate graphs

Dear all, I'm trying to overlay EU NUTS2 and NUTS3 using spmap, but the polygon option doesn't combine two graphs and is seperating...

Obtain which bin and corresponding density each observation in plotted histogram belongs to?

Hello everyone, Suppose I plot a histogram: Code: clear set obs 10 g z = _n replace z = 5 if _n > 5 hist z Given the plotted his...

Same date or within 7 days, within two variables

Dear statalist-members, I need to identify patients that got med1 and med2 on the same day, or within 7 days. I made a variable that identi...

Simple percentiles using wide dataset

Hello, I'm not sure why I am having such trouble creating a variable corresponding to percentiles. I have a dataset that looks like th...

Checking Duplications

I am trying to use xtset and I know how to remove any duplications. Is there a way to see if the non-id/time variables also repeat in value?...

Matching several observations via new variable

Hello everyone, Currently I'm working with a dataset that contains several waves with various ID's (mothers) and their correspondi...

Getting the repeated-measures bse() error (again)

Hello, I'm new to the list so apologies for posting a basic question. Until the latest update of STATA, I've been able to figure o...