Estimation tables

With the new etable command, you can create, customize, and export a table of estimation results in one step. If you want to create other types of tables or further customize tables produced by etable, don't miss the updated table command and collect suite of commands that were introduced in Stata 17.

Do-file Editor

Want to run the line of code that your cursor is currently on? Now you can by simply clicking on Tools > Execute (do) line.

Bookmarks and Navigation Control were added in Stata 17. You can now control the level of indentation for each bookmark, and you can navigate to Java and Python blocks with Navigation Control.

Speed

Speed improvements were important in Stata 17, and we keep making new features even faster. The didregress and xtdidregress commands for difference-in-differences estimation and the stintcox command for fitting the Cox proportional hazards model to interval-censored survival-time data are both faster.

Meta-analysis

The meta-analysis suite continues to grow. If you are performing subgroup analysis, you can now obtain prediction intervals for each subgroup's overall effect size when you use meta forestplot and meta summarize to create forest plots and meta-analysis summaries.

And when you create a subgroup forest plot, the within-group significance test for each group-specific overall effect size is now displayed.

Reporting

Need to create a Word document with Stata results that has headers or footers that alternate on odd and even pages? The putdocx command now makes this easy.

Bayesian analysis

The bayesmh command is now even more powerful—you can use a multivariate normal prior with a scaled covariance matrix, Gibbs sampling for a probit likelihood with a multivariate normal prior for regression coefficients, and time-series operators for independent variables.