learning Stata's postestimation tools

[Junran Cao]

Hi Statalist

I recently watched Kristin MacDonald's webinar 'Stata Tips and Tricks' and there was a great section in which she demonstrated some of the capabilities of the postestimation tools.

I am therefore wondering if anyone has come across any good materials (online, books, etc.) that teaches the various postestimation methods - I don't mean the reference manuals or a statistics textbook focusing only on the theory but rather something like a statistics book that uses Stata in a 'learning by doing' way.

Thanks,
Junran

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Junran:
I'm not sure what you actually refer to by postestimation tools.
As William Lisowski wisely reminds oftentimes, Stata manual is the first place I would start from scratch, as it actually has many sections covering postestimation commands for many differen types of regression model. Although going your way through it is time-consuming, the worked out examples are really useful to understand which command fits your reasearch needs at best.
Set aside the Stata webinars and the wonderful Stata books and books on Stata (https://www.stata.com/bookstore/books-on-stata/), another interesting online resource is: https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stata/modules/.
That said, most part of the job is practising with Stata codes/commands in order to become familiar with them and create a sort of mental dashboard that can help you (after some years, in my experience) in recalling the right tool for the research at hand (even though you have not been using that command for many yeras).

[Junran Cao]

Thanks Carlo. By "postestimation tools", I was referring to the different sets of commands available from the dropdown statistics > postestimation depending on the model just ran.

Thanks for the website links. Much apprecicated.

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Junran:
thanks for clarifying.
I would start from -regress postestimation-.

[Junran Cao]

Thanks again Carlo. I will start from the examples in -regress postestimation- 's manual.