Stata documentation

PDF documentation

Regardless of license size or Stata flavour (MP, SE, IC or Small), each copy of Stata comes with 1 PDF Documentation Set and 1 installation DVD. PDF cocumentation includes the Base Reference Manual, User's Guide, Data-Management Reference Manual, Graphics Reference Manual, and all the programming and specialised statistics manuals. The PDF documentation is linked into the existing interactive help file system. Continue to use the help files to review syntax and options and to see short examples; click on the link in the title of the help file to be taken to the corresponding entry in the PDF documentation.

Additional Documentation Sets and DVDs may also be purchased.

Printed documentation

Of course, for extended reading sessions, many people (including us) prefer reading a printed book, so printed documentation is also available and can be purchased as a complete Documentaion Set or as individual books.

  • Base Reference Manual (4 volumes)
  • Data-Management Reference Manual
  • Graphics Reference Manual
  • Longitudinal-Data/Panel-Data Reference Manual
  • Mata Reference Manual (2 volumes)
  • Multiple-Imputation Reference Manual
  • Multivariate Statistics Reference Manual
  • Programming Reference Manual
  • Survey Data Reference Manual
  • Survival Analysis and Epidemiological Tables Reference Manual
  • Time-Series Reference Manual
  • User's Guide
  • Getting Started with Stata for Mac
  • Getting Started with Stata for Unix
  • Getting Started with Stata for Windows
  • Quick Reference and Index