Stata recently released a new version of Stata 15. Although I don’t know many new statistical models and functions, what I am most looking forward to is that Stata 15 can directly output Word files in the program, including file content and statistical results.
The following figure is a demonstration of this function on the official Stata website .
You can see that the upper part is the text description, which supports various text formats, and the lower part can directly output pictures and tables. Such a feature will greatly increase the productivity of using Stata.
The syntax for generating this file also maintains Stata’s consistent style of simplicity and is not too complicated.
sysuse auto, replace putdocx begin // Create a paragraph putdocx paragraph putdocx text ("putdocx "), bold putdocx text ("can add formatted text to a paragraph. You can ") putdocx text ("italicize, "), italic putdocx text ("strikeout, "), strikeout putdocx text ("underline"), underline putdocx text (", sub/super script") putdocx text ("2 "), script(sub) putdocx text (", and ") putdocx text("shade"), shading("blue") qui sum mpg local sum : display %4.2f `r(sum)' putdocx text (". Also, you can easily add Stata results to your paragraph (mpg total = `sum')") // Embed a graph histogram rep graph export hist.png, replace putdocx paragraph, halign(center) putdocx image hist.png // Embed Stata output putdocx paragraph putdocx text ("Embed the output from a regression command into your docx file.") regress mpg price putdocx table mytable = etable // Embed Stata dataset putdocx paragraph putdocx text ("Embed the data in Stata's memory into a table in your docx file.") statsby Total=r(N) Average=r(mean) Max=r(max) Min=r(min), by(foreign): summarize mpg rename foreign origin putdocx table tbl1 = data("Origin Total Average Max Min"), varnames border(start, nil) border(insideV, nil) border(end, nil) putdocx save myreport.docx, replace
When I have the funds to upgrade to Stata 15, I will share the detailed experience with you.
