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Stata Teaching Tools:  Probability tables


Purpose:  The purpose of these four programs is to display the
critical values from the chi-squared, f-, t- and z-distributions.  The
critical values are given for a variety of alpha levels.

Download:  You can download this program from within Stata by
typing search probtabl (see
How can I use the search command to search for programs and get additional
help?
for more information about using search).

Use of program:  To use these programs, type one of the following
commands in the Stata command window:  chitable ftable ttable
ztable.  A number indicating the desired degrees of freedom can be
placed after the chitable and ttable commands.  The option alpha(#)
can be added to the ftable command.  There are no options available
for the ztable command.

Examples:  The following shows the output from issuing the chitable command,
which gives the critical values of chi-square for a variety of degrees of
freedom and alpha levels.

Image probta1

The following shows the output from issuing the ftable command, which
gives the critical values of F for a variety of degrees of freedom at the .05
alpha level.

Image probta2

The following shows the output from issuing the ttable command, which
gives the critical values of t for a variety of degrees of freedom at various
levels of alpha for both a one- and a two-tailed test.

Image probta3

The following shows the output from issuing the ztable command, which
gives the critical values of z. 

Image probta4