Stata¶

Description¶

Stata statistical software is a complete, integrated statistical software package that provides everything you need for data analysis, data management, and graphics.

Environment Modules¶

Run module spider stata to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables¶

HPC_STATA_DIR - installation directory
HPC_STATA_BIN - executable directory

Additional Usage Information¶

Graphical Interface¶

To use the graphical interface for Stata, you will need to ensure X11 forwarding is enabled and connect via the GUI nodes. The GUI Programs Page has general instructions for setting this up.

Once connected, use module load stata to setup Stata and one of the following commands to launch the version of Stata you wish to run:

xstata - the default version
xstata-mp - the multi-processor version (Licensed for up to 8-cores)
xstata-se - the special edition

Note

The "x" here indicates X11, the method used to present the graphical interface to the user.

Batch System and Interactive Text-Based¶

When Stata is run through the batch system or interactively in the text only mode, the "x" is not needed, and the commands to open the different versions are:

stata - the default version
stata-mp - the multi-processor version (Licensed for up to 8-cores)
stata-se - the special edition

Ado-Files¶

Stata uses ado-files to add programability to Stata. Ado-files extend the functionality of Stata by adding new functions. Some ado-files are provided by Stata and are already installed, others can be downloaded from various sources. To use an ado-file, it needs to be in on of several special locations. These locations can be found using the sysdir command within Stata:

$ sysdir
   STATA:  /apps/stata/stata13/
   BASE:  /apps/stata/stata13/ado/base/
   SITE:  /apps/stata/ado/
   PLUS:  ~/ado/plus/
   PERSONAL:  ~/ado/personal/
   OLDPLACE:  ~/ado/

In addition, Stata will also look in the current directory.

Users cannot add ado-files to any of the /apps/stata/ directories, but should instead add ado-files to one of the ~/ado directories (note that the "~" character is shorthand for your home directory /home/$USER/), or in the directory where they are executing stata. If you know of an ado-file that you think will be broadly used by UF researchers, and it would make sense to install it for everyone to be able to use, please open a support request, and the Research Computing staff can add it to one of the /apps/stata/ directories.

Categories¶

statistics