Stata Programs for Teaching

Useful Stata Programs

This page describes Stata programs for
teaching. You can download any of these programs from within Stata using
the search command. For example, to download the cidemo command you can type search
cidemo (see
How can I use the search command to search for programs and get additional
help? for more information about using search).

Teaching Tools about Univariate Distributions
cidemo	How N and confidence level affects the size of confidence intervals
cidemo2	How N and confidence level affects the size of confidence intervals, enhanced
clt	Central limit theorem demonstration
meanpt	Graph distribution with moving point
sdmdemo	Shows influence of N on sampling distribution of the mean
Probability Simulation Teaching Tools
bxmodel	Box Model Simulation
cards	Card playing simulation, including blackjack
dice	Dice rolling simulation
heads	Coin tossing simulation
Teaching Tools about Statistical Distributions
chidemo	Shows Chi-square distribution with rejection region
fdemo	Shows F distribution with rejection region
probtabl	Probability tables
tdemo	Shows Students t distribution with rejection region
zdemo	Display Z distribution with vertical lines
zdemo2	Display two normal distributions with differing means & sd
ztail	Shows Z distribution with a given percentage in the tails
Regression Teaching Tools
corrsq	Matrix of squared correlation coefficients
cordemo	Shows scatterplot for correlation
grols	Graphs OLS regression line
grlog	Graph logistic regression curve
orcalc	Calculates odds ratios
regpt	The influence of a single point in regression
vibl	Visualizing Main Effects and Interactions for Binary Logit Models in Stata
Other/Misc Teaching Tools
pwrdemo	Demonstration showing Ho & Ha curves for teaching power
pwrdemo2	How power varies with n, alpha, and effect size, animated
pwrdemo3	How power varies with n, alpha and effect size
t2demo	T² demonstration
zcalc	Computing Z Scores