Stata

Stata is a programming language created in 1985 by William Gould.

Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package created in 1985 by StataCorp. Most of its users work in research, especially in the fields of economics, sociology, political science, biomedicine and epidemiology. Stata's capabilities include data management, statistical analysis, graphics, simulations, regression, and custom programming. Read more on Wikipedia...

#174on PLDB

37Years Old

2.8kUsers

the Stata website
the Stata Wikipedia page
Stata is backed by StataCorp
file extensions for Stata include do, ado, doh, ihlp, mata, matah and sthlp
the Stata team is on Twitter
There are 16 Project Euler users using Stata
Explore Stata snippets on Rosetta Code
Stata appears in the TIOBE Index
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Stata
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Stata
There are 2 Jupyter Kernels for Stata: 1,2
There is a central package repository for Stata
stata.com was registered in 1994
See also: C, Linux, ASCII, Microsoft Excel
Read more about Stata on the web: 1
Have a question about Stata not answered here? Open an issue explaining what you need.
Edit this page

Example code from the Hello World Collection:

/* Hello world in Stata */

 .program hello
  1. display "Hello, World!"
  2. end
.hello

Example code from Linguist:

local MAXDIM   800

Example code from Wikipedia:

program define fizzbuzz
	args x
	forvalues i = 1(1)`x' {
		if mod(`i',15) == 0 {
			display "fizzbuzz"
		}
		else if mod(`i',5) == 0 {
			display "buzz"
		}
		else if mod(`i',3) == 0 {
			display "fizz"
		}
		else {
		display `i'
		}
	}
end

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	ϴ

Article source