NEW FEATURES StataNow™ – September 2024


  • (StataNow™) PANEL-DATA VECTOR AUTOREGRESSIVE (VAR) MODEL
  • ENHANCEMENTS TO:
    1. (StataNow™) Do-file Editor temporary and permanent bookmarks. The Do-file Editor now supports temporary bookmarks in addition to permanent bookmarks. Bookmarks allow you to easily navigate through your do-file. The existing permanent bookmarks are saved as part of the do-file. You can use the new temporary bookmarks to immediately navigate your do-file but without making any changes to its content. Temporary bookmarks can be added to any line that does not already contain a permanent bookmark and are removed when your do-file is closed. To add a temporary bookmark in the Do-file Editor of Stata for Windows and Stata for Unix, select menu item Edit > Toggle temporary bookmark or press the Alt key and click on the bookmark margin of a line. To add a temporary bookmark in the Do-file Editor of Stata for Mac, select menu item Edit > Find > Toggle temporary bookmark or press the Option key and click on the bookmark margin of a line. Read [GSW] 13 Using the Do-file Editor—automating Stata, [GSM] 13 Using the Do-file Editor—automating Stata, or [GSU] 13 Using the Do-file Editor—automating Stata to learn how to use temporary bookmarks in the Do-file Editor.
    2. (StataNow™) Do-file Editor autocompletion. The Do-file Editor now allows autocompletion of macro names and stored results. In addition, autocompletion preferences can be set by using the following new checkboxes:
      • Autocompletion > Autocomplete using macro names. When this is checked, local macro names and global macro names in memory can be autocompleted.

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    • Autocompletion > Autocomplete using r(), e(), and s() results. When this is checked, stored result names in memory can be autocompleted.
    • Autocompletion > Autocomplete while typing strings. Only when this is checked will text within quotes be autocompleted.
    • Autocompletion > Autocomplete while typing comments. Only when this is checked will the text of a comment be autocompleted.
  1. (StataNow™) estat mundlak after xtreg with option vce(bootstrap) now returns the number of bootstrap replications in scalar r(N_reps).
  2. dtable and etable, when specified with a file path containing a comma in option export(), exited with an unhelpful error message, even when the file path was in quotes. This has been fixed. Quoted file paths containing commas, that are correctly specified, are now accepted.
  3. estat ptrends after hdidregress twfe and xthdidregress twfe, when there were missing pretreatment time periods, exited with an uninformative error message. This has been fixed.
  4. margins with option vce(unconditional) after regress with aweights incorrectly computed the standard errors, reporting values that were too small by a factor roughly equal to the mean of the weights. This has been fixed.
  5. screeplot with option ci (or ci(asymptotic)) produced a matrix named r(ci) that was nearly impossible to access because it conflicted with macro r(ci). To fix this, matrix r(ci) has been renamed to r(civals). The old naming behavior was not preserved under version control.