Stata News Volume 40 Number 1

Read the new book on visualizing your data with Stata. Stop clinical trials early using group sequential designs. Submit your abstract for the 2025 Stata Conference. And more. All inside the latest issue of the Stata News.

Vol 40 No 1

Graphs Everyone Should Know and How to Create Them in Stata ^New

Enhance your analytical storytelling through Stata's graphical capabilities. This book aims to make sophisticated data visualization approachable for users at all levels. You will learn about the vast number of graph types available through Stata's official and community-contributed commands and the situations in which each graph is most useful for presenting data or results.

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In the spotlight: Group sequential designs for clinical trials

Designing a clinical trial? Discover the gs suite of commands for calculating stopping boundaries and sample sizes for interim analyses or "looks". Stop the trial early for treatment efficacy or futility while controlling the familywise error rate.

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2025 Stata Conference: Call for presentations

Submit your abstract for the 2025 Stata Conference in Nashville, TN, on 31 July–1 August. Any topic related to Stata, from advice on teaching with Stata to introducing a new command that you developed, is welcome. Abstracts are due by 3 March.

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You asked. We listened! Do-file Editor templates

Do you find yourself repeating the same code in do-file after do-file? Put it in a template! Use a new Do-file Editor built-in template, or create your own with StataNow.

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2025 Stata Biostatistics and Epidemiology Virtual Symposium

Don’t miss this opportunity on 20 February to learn from experts in biostatistics and epidemiology as they share their latest work using Stata. The symposium is free and registrations are limited.

Community corner: Data Enchanted

Calling all Swifties! See how Kathryn Bender is using Taylor Swift to inspire the next generation of Stata users in her “Data Enchanted” workshop series.