Stata Class Notes
The Fabulous Fifties

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Stata has a lot of commands (around 500 depending on how you count them). Putting aside the statistical commands that might particularly interest you, here are 50 some odd commands everyone should know:

Category	Stata commands
Getting on-line help	help search
Operating-system interface	pwd cd sysdir mkdir dir / ls erase copy type
Using and saving data from disk	use clear save append merge compress
Inputting data into Stata	input edit infile infix insheet
The Internet and Updating Stata	update net ado news
Basic data reporting	describe codebook inspect list browse count assert summarize table tabulate
Data manipulation	generate replace egen recode rename drop keep sort encode decode order by reshape
Formatting	format label
Keeping track of your work	log notes
Convenience	display