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Statistics/Data Analysis
Welcome to OpenStata, an online text editor and tutorial
for learning Stata!
// What is Stata?
Stata is the proprietary statistical software used by most
economics departments.
Students interested in entering the field of economics —
either through becoming a research assistant or applying
to graduate school — are often expected to have working
knowledge of Stata.
While some well-resourced colleges and universities have
institutional licenses for Stata, many high school and
college students lack access to an institutional license
or the funding to purchase Stata, creating yet another
barrier to entry in a field that already struggles with
diversity [1].
// What is OpenStata?
OpenStata is a free online text-editor that:
1. Provides tutorials to teach you the basics of Stata
2. Compiles, runs, and displays output for basic Stata
code
3. Allows you to store `.do` files (Stata programs),
`.log` files (Stata program output), and your own datasets
// How it's made!
OpenStata does not use Stata! Instead, we create our own
parser and implementation of Stata syntax relying largely
on the Nearly.js parsing toolkit [2] and econtools [3]
python library.
Footnotes!
[1] Bayer, Amanda, and Cecilia Elena Rouse. 2016.
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