NEW FEATURES StataNow™ – October 2024


  1. (StataNow™) BAYESIAN VARIABLE SELECTION FOR LINEAR MODEL
  2. (StataNow™) INSTRUMENTAL-VARIABLES LOCAL-PROJECTION IRFS
  3. (StataNow™) GIBBS SAMPLING FOR NORMAL LINEAR MODELS WITH LAPLACE PRIORS
    • Command bayesmh with univariate normal likelihood and Laplace prior for regression coefficients or with mean parameter of normal prior and Laplace hyperprior now supportsGibbs sampling via suboption gibbs of option block().
  4. (StataNow™) CUMULATIVE STRUCTURAL IMPULSE-RESPONSE FUNCTIONS (IRFS)
    • Postestimation command irf create, when used after ivsvar or ivlpirf, now computes statistic csirf for cumulative structural IRFs. Cumulative structural IRFs sum individual IRFs and are useful for evaluating the total effect of a shock over time. You can graph these statistics with irf graph, irf cgraph, irf ograph, and you can tabulate them with irf table and irf ctable.
  5. The Data Editor’s input box can now show full precision of the number in the selected cell. This setting can be enabled from the Data Editor’s preferences. By default, the display format will be used.

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  1. Online help and the search index have been brought up to date for Stata Journal 24(3).
  2. collect: prefix, when used with mi estimate specified with an expression, collected the coefficient table results twice, first tagged with program_class[eclass], and then a second time tagged with program_class[rclass]. collect: should have only collected the coefficient table results tagged with program_class[eclass]. This has been fixed.
  3. estimates use now supports loading estimation results from a file that was created without a call to ereturn post. Prior to this change, estimates use filename exited with the error message “error reading file” if filename was saved using estimation results that were not created by ereturn post.
  4. makespline with basis bspline and option uniformknots exited with an uninformative error message. This has been fixed.
  5. matrix accum and many estimation commands, such as regress, when specified with more than 23,169 continuous variables or factor-variable levels, sometimes exited with error message “op. sys. refuses to provide memory“, but could also crash Stata, even if your computer had the memory resources available to handle computing the specified cross-product matrix. This has been fixed.
  6. (Mac) view browse would output the incorrect file URL to the default web browser for a path that contained a space in it. This has been fixed.