| Stata Basics |
| Interactive use |
| Documentation |
| Command syntax and operators |
| Do-files and log files |
| Scalars and matrices |
| Using results from Stata commands |
| Global and local macros |
| Looping commands |
| Some useful commands |
| Template do-file |
| User-written commands |
| Data Management and Graphics |
| Introduction |
| Types of data |
| Inputting data |
| Data management |
| Manipulating datasets |
| Graphical display of data |
| Linear Regression Basics |
| Introduction |
| Data and data summary |
| Regression in levels and logs |
| Basic regression analysis |
| Specification analysis |
| Prediction |
| Sampling weights |
| OLS using Mata |
| Simulation |
| Introduction |
| Pseudorandom-number generators: Introduction |
| Distribution of the sample mean |
| Pseudorandom-number generators: Further details |
| Computing integrals |
| Simulation for regression: Introduction |
| GLS Regression |
| Introduction |
| GLS and FGLS regression |
| Modeling heteroskedastic data |
| System of linear regressions |
| Survey data: Weighting, clustering, and stratification |
| Linear Instrumental-Variables Regression |
| Introduction |
| IV estimation |
| IV example |
| Weak instruments |
| Better inference with weak instruments |
| 3SLS systems estimation |
| Quantile Regression |
| Introduction |
| QR |
| QR for medical expenditures data |
| QR for generated heteroskedastic data |
| QR for count data |
| Linear Panel-Data Models: Basics |
| Introduction |
| Panel-data methods overview |
| Panel-data summary |
| Pooled or population-averaged estimators |
| Within estimator |
| Between estimator |
| RE estimator |
| Comparison of estimators |
| First-difference estimator |
| Long panels |
| Panel-data management |
| Linear Panel-Data Models: Extensions |
| Introduction |
| Panel IV estimation |
| Hausman-Taylor estimator |
| Arellano-Bond estimator |
| Mixed linear models |
| Clustered data |
| Nonlinear Regression Methods |
| Introduction |
| Nonlinear example: Doctor visits |
| Nonlinear regression methods |
| Different estimates of the VCE |
| Prediction |
| Marginal effects |
| Model diagnostics |
| Nonlinear Optimization Methods |
| Introduction |
| Newton-Raphson method |
| Gradient methods |
| The ml command: lf method |
| Checking the program |
| The ml command: d0, d1, d2, lf0, lf1, and lf2 methods |
| The Mata optimize() function |
| Generalized method of moments |
| Testing Methods |
| Introduction |
| Critical values and p-values |
| Wald tests and confidence intervals |
| Likelihood-ratio tests |
| Lagrange multiplier test (or score test) |
| Test size and power |
| Specification tests |
| Bootstrap Methods |
| Introduction |
| Bootstrap methods |
| Bootstrap pairs using the vce(bootstrap) option |
| Bootstrap pairs using the bootstrap command |
| Bootstraps with asymptotic refinement |
| Bootstrap pairs using bsample and simulate |
| Alternative resampling schemes |
| The jackknife |
| Binary Outcome Models |
| Introduction |
| Some parametric models |
| Estimation |
| Example |
| Hypothesis and specification tests |
| Goodness of fit and prediction |
| Marginal effects |
| Endogenous regressors |
| Grouped data |
| Multinomial Models |
| Introduction |
| Multinomial models overview |
| Multinomial example: Choice of fishing mode |
| Multinomial logit model |
| Conditional logit model |
| Nested logit model |
| Multinomial probit model |
| Random-parameters logit |
| Ordered outcome models |
| Multivariate outcomes |
| Tobit and Selection Models |
| Introduction |
| Tobit model |
| Tobit model example |
| Tobit for lognormal data |
| Two-part model in logs |
| Selection model |
| Prediction from models with outcome in logs |
| Count-Data Models |
| Introduction |
| Features of count data |
| Empirical example 1 |
| Empirical example 2 |
| Models with endogenous regressors |
| Nonlinear Panel Models |
| Introduction |
| Nonlinear panel-data overview |
| Nonlinear panel-data example |
| Binary outcome models |
| Tobit model |
| Count-data models |
| Appendix A Programming in Stata |
| Appendix B Mata |
| Glossary |
| References |
| Author Index |
| Subject Index |
| Stata resources and Exercises appear at the end of each chapter |