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Stata
Stata is another general purpose statistical software package
that we support here at RSS. It is put out by StataCorp based
at College Station, and is a comprehensive package that entails a
variety of techniques on par with the other major packages.
While not as pervasive as SAS or
SPSS in the social sciences, it is very
popular among those in political science and economics. In
particular it has a wide variety of options for generalized linear
models, time-series analyses, and hazard models. Stata is also
similar to R in allowing user contributed
packages to be incorporated seamlessly into the program's overall
functionality. Stata furthermore has a menu system allowing
access to almost all built in commands, and in general is a solid
all around statistical package.
Stata is the only package for which students who want to
purchase a personal copy must come to the RSS office
at some point (contact Patrick Mcleod). Again though, it is
free to use in the labs on campus.
Official Stata website
Stata Journal
Introduction to Stata
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