Stata 16 Feature highlights：
1. Lasso
2. Reporting
3. Meta-analysis
4. Choice models
5. Python integration
6. New in Bayesian analysis—Multiple chains, predictions, and more
7. Panel-data ERMs
8. Import data from SAS and SPSS
9. Nonparametric series regression
10. Multiple datasets in memory
11. Sample-size analysis for confidence intervals
12. Nonlinear DSGE models
13. Multiple-group IRT models
14. xtheckman
15. Multiple-dose pharmacokinetic modeling
16. Heteroskedastic ordered probit models
17. Graph sizes in printer points, centimeters, and inches
18. Numerical integration
19. Linear programming
20. Stata in Korean
21. Mac interface now supports Dark Mode and native tabbed windows
22. Do-file Editor—Autocompletion and more syntax highlighting
Nonparametric series regression
Stata 16's new npregress series command fits nonparametric series regressions that approximate the mean of the dependent variable using polynomials, B-splines, or splines of the covariates. This means that you do not need to specify any predetermined functional form. You specify only which covariates you wish to include in your model. For instance, type
. npregress series wineoutput rainfall temperature i.irrigation
Instead of reporting coefficients, npregress series reports effects, meaning average marginal effects for continuous variables and contrasts for categorical variables. The results might be that the average marginal effect of rainfall is 1 and the contrast for irrigation is 2. This contrast can be interpreted as the average treatment effect of irrigation.
Being a nonparametric regression, the unknown mean is approximated by a series function of the covariates. And yet we can still obtain the inferences that we could from a parametric model. We just use margins. We could type
. margins irrigation, at(temperature=(40(5)90))
and obtain a table of the expected effect of having irrigation at temperatures of 40, 50, ..., 90 degrees. And we could graph the result using marginsplot.
Even more, npregress series can fit partially parametric (semiparametric) models.
Stata的数据管理功能让您控制所有类型的数据。
您可以重组数据，管理变量，并收集各组并重复统计。您可以处理字节，整数，long, float,double和字符串变量（包括BLOB和达到20亿个字符的字符串）。Stata还有一些高级的工具用来管理特殊的数据，如生存/时间数据、时间序列数据、面板/纵向数据、分类数据、多重替代数据和调查数据。
Stata轻松生成出版质量、风格迥异的图形。您可以编写脚本并以可复制的方式生成成百上千个图形，并且可以以EPS或TIF格式输出打印、以PNG格式或SVG格式输出放到网上、或PDF格式输出预览。使用这个图形编辑器可更改图形的任何方面，或添加标题、注释、横线、箭头和文本。
真正的文档
当Stata执行您的分析或理解使用的方法时，Stata不会让您孤立无援或订购很多书籍来了解每个细节。
我们每一个数据管理功能都有完整的解释，并记录在案，并在实践中显示实际的例子。每一个估计都有完全记录，包含几个真实数据的例子，真正讨论如何解释结果。这些例子都给了数据，您可以直接在Stata中使用，甚至扩展您的分析。我们给您快速启动每一个功能，展示一些较常用用途。想要了解更多细节，我们的方法和公式部分提供了计算的细节，我们参考部分会给出更多信息。
Stata是一个很大的软件包，包含了非常多的文档，**过27卷14,000页的内容。不用担心，在Help菜单中输入要搜索的内容，Stata会搜索到关键词、指数，甚至用户编写的程序包，这些会让您得到想要了解的一切。Stata包含了所有这些您想要的内容。
使用Mata进行矩阵编程
Mata是一个成熟的编程语言，可编译您所输入的任何字节，并进行优化和准确执行。
尽管您不需要使用Stata进行编程，但是它作为一个快速完成矩阵的编程语言，是Stata功能中不可或缺的一部分。Mata既是一个操作矩阵的互动环境，也是一个完整开发环境，可以生产编译和优化代码。它还包含了一些特殊功能来处理面板数据、执行真实或复制的矩阵运算，提供完整的支持面向对象的编程，并完全兼容Stata。
We are excited to introduce you to the new features in Stata 16. Below, we list highlights of the release. In what follows, we tell you a little more about the first 13 of them. We introduce each feature using words that you might also use as you introduce them to existing and potential Stata users.
The majority of these features will be exciting to researchers in all disciplines. Where appropriate, we will highlight which disciplines will be most interested or provide advice about how different groups of users will relate to the feature. We
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