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Stata: History, Technical overview and terminology & Software products

Stata (/ˈsteɪtə/, STAY-ta, alternatively /ˈstætə/, occasionally stylized as STATA) is a general-purpose statistical software package developed by StataCorp for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting. It is used by researchers in many fields, including biomedicine, economics, epidemiology, and sociology.

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Stata topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Technical overview and terminology and Software products as prominent areas in the source structure around Stata.

Related topics
32
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
36
Extracted relationships
102
Concept neighborhoods
13
Bridge connections
36

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Technical overview and terminology · 13 topics
History · 12 topics
Overview · 6 topics
Software products · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Developer
StataCorp
License
Proprietary
Operating system
Windows, macOS, Linux
Original author
William Gould
Release
1985 (1985)
Stable release
19.0 / April 8, 2025; 16 months ago (2025-04-08)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Technical overview and terminology

History

Software products

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Stata connects Entity context

The extracted context around Stata shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Stata → All Stata, Bill, Gould, In, Linux, MacOS, MicroTSP, MS-DOS, Sean Becketti, Since, Support Disks, SYSTAT, The, There, Unix, William, Windows, With, Written Another extracted example is Stata → Bittmann, Boston, Cengage, College Station, DeGruyter Oldenbourg, Enrique, Felix, Hamilton, ISBN, Lawrence, Pinzon, Really Short Introduction, Retrospective, Stata Press, Statistics, Texas, Thirty Years. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Stata

Top relations

related to history · 19
Stata → All Stata, Bill, Gould, In, Linux, MacOS, MicroTSP, MS-DOS, Sean Becketti, Since, Support Disks, SYSTAT, The, There, Unix, William, Windows, With, Written
related to Further reading · 17
Stata → Bittmann, Boston, Cengage, College Station, DeGruyter Oldenbourg, Enrique, Felix, Hamilton, ISBN, Lawrence, Pinzon, Really Short Introduction, Retrospective, Stata Press, Statistics, Texas, Thirty Years
related to User community · 15
Stata → Germany, In, It, Italy, Local Stata, Only, Other, Stata Conference, Stata Journal, Stata's, Statacorp, The Stata Technical Bulletin, UK, United States, User Group
related to Software products · 11
Stata → BE, CPU, Numerics, SE, Stata/BE, Stata/MP, Stata/SE, The, There, Though Stata/MP, Whereas Stata/MP
related to Extensibility · 10
Stata → Although Stata, Boston College, Jupyter Notebooks, Many, More, Python, Python IDEs, StataCorp, Statistical Software Components Archive, Theprogramcommand
related to Data format compatibility · 7
Stata → ASCII, CSV, Every, Excel, Stata's, This, Thus
related to Data structure and storage · 6
Stata → Control Language, Itscompresscommand, SMCL, Stata Markup, Stata's, Until
related to External links · 3
Stata → JournalStata PressStata Technical BulletinStatistical, Official, Software Components Archive
related to User interface · 3
Stata → From, Starting, The
Developer · 1
Stata → StataCorp

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

commands data version user statacorp released statistical format release software se 1985 dataset formats users mp statistics including new technical

Stata relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 102 structured relationships around Stata. Examples in this analysis include Stata → Developer → StataCorp and Stata → License → Proprietary. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
StataDeveloperStataCorp1.00infobox
StataLicenseProprietary1.00infobox
StataOperating systemWindows, macOS, Linux1.00infobox
StataOriginal authorWilliam Gould1.00infobox
StataRelease1985 (1985)1.00infobox
StataStable release19.0 / April 8, 2025; 16 months ago (2025-04-08)1.00infobox
StataTypeStatistical analysis Numerical analysis1.00infobox
StataWebsitewww.stata.com1.00infobox
StataWritten inC1.00infobox
SYSTATinstance ofThe software was intended to compete with statistical programs for personal computers0.80text
MicroTSPinstance ofThe software was intended to compete with statistical programs for personal computers0.80text
Statarelated to Data format compatibilityThis0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Stata bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Commands, Mp and Release. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Stata
    • Commands
    • Mp
    • Release
    • Se
    • Statacorp
    • Format
    • Version
    • Data
    • Formats
    • Released
    • User
    • Current
  • stata
    • Commands
    • Mp
    • Release
    • Se
    • Statacorp
    • Format
    • Version
    • Data
    • Formats
    • Released
    • User
    • Current
  • user community
    • User
    • Interface
    • System
    • Windows
    • Proprietary
    • Single
    • Including
    • Stata's
    • Technical
    • Software
    • Release
    • Statacorp
  • graphical user interface
    • System
    • Windows
    • Community
    • Many
    • Proprietary
    • User
    • Technical
    • Single
    • Software
    • Release
    • Statacorp
    • Statistical
  • statistical software components archive
    • Statistical
    • Technical
    • Statistics
    • Statacorp
    • Developed
    • Interface
    • System
    • Windows
    • College
    • Community
    • Data
    • Many
  • software products
    • Statistical
    • Technical
    • Statacorp
    • Developed
    • Interface
    • System
    • Windows
    • College
    • Community
    • Data
    • Many
    • Proprietary
  • windows
    • Interface
    • System
    • Community
    • Proprietary
    • Technical
    • Versions
    • Released
    • Software
    • Release
    • Statacorp
    • Statistical
    • Format
  • statistical
    • Statistics
    • Technical
    • Interface
    • System
    • Windows
    • College
    • Community
    • Many
    • Proprietary
    • Release
    • Format
    • User

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Stata, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Stata with Technical overview and terminology. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Stata — Technical overview and terminology · splits 23 ⟂ 14
Stata — History · splits 24 ⟂ 13
Stata — Overview · splits 30 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Stata

Nodes37
Edges36
Triples102
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.054054
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Stata to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Technical overview and terminology & Software products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Stata · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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