Stata Reviews & Pricing

by StataCorp | Founded 1984, College Station, TX

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What is Stata?

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Designed for data scientists, Stata is statistical software that helps users find insights through data exploration, visualization, modeling and analysis. It gives users a wide range of both standard and advanced statistical analyses that can help them make inferences and decisions based on data. With both a graphical user interface and command line structure, it’s accessible to users with or without coding knowledge.

Users can choose between four offerings according to their needs: MP which is the fastest and largest version, SE for large datasets, IC for mid-sized data sets and Numerics for embedded. Suitable for companies of all sizes, it is available via on-premises installation on Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix devices, or via the SaaS model.

Pricing varies based on the number and type of licenses requested, as well as the length of the subscription. It can be purchased for business, government, nonprofit, educational or student use and the vendor offers price quotes upon request.

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Stata Pricing

Based on our most recent analysis, Stata pricing starts at $48 (Annual, Quote-based).

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Training Resources

Stata is supported with the following types of training:

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Support

The following support services are available for Stata:

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Stata Benefits and Insights

Why use Stata?

Key differentiators & advantages of Stata

Make Data-Driven Inferences: With a wide range of powerful statistical features, Stata can perform many kinds of analysis and help users manipulate and visualize their data in various ways to draw meaningful conclusions.
Ease of Use: Stata’s intuitive point-and-click user interface makes statistics processes accessible to beginners. Users simply click menus and fill in dialog boxes to run tasks.
Adaptability: Whether they’re business users, researchers, programmers or expert analysts, users of all skill levels can feel comfortable performing statistical analysis with Stata. Provided with both a developer-friendly command line interface and a user-friendly menu and dialog system, users can operate in whichever workspace feels most familiar.
Functionality at an Affordable Cost: Users get everything in one package, no matter which version or license of Stata they choose, as the product is not sold in modules. Users can choose the option that fits their budget and needs without sacrificing functionality.
Version Compatibility: Future-proof, Stata frees users from the shackles of keeping and maintaining multiple installations of different versions of Stata, as the most up-to-date version of Stata will always be able to understand older code and datasets, eliminating broken scripts even if users change operating systems or jump to a version of Stata many versions ahead. Created with reproducible research in mind, scripts written in 1985 will run and produce the same results in 2020 and 2050 and beyond, saving users time and money.
Accuracy and Reliability: Stata’s platform is extensively and continually tested and validated by engineers and statisticians, with every version’s code passed through a certification suite before release.
Vibrant Community: Stata fosters a friendly, thriving user community that shares and collaborates with each other through conferences, meetings and an online forum. Developers can also add new community-contributed features through programming, which other users can install to add functionality to their solution.
One License, All Platforms: Stata can run on Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix operating systems, but because licenses aren’t platform specific, a user with a valid license can install Stata on any supported platform and share datasets across platforms without translation.
Publication-Quality Graphics: Users can generate visually appealing graphs and charts that look professional and are ready for publication.
Dedicated Support and Comprehensive Resources: Users can maximize the return on their investment with in-depth technical support from a dedicated staff of programmers and statisticians, as well as a plethora of online resources and searchable documentation for self-learning and training. More details about Stata’s support offerings can be found below.

Industry Expertise

Stata has more than 30 years of expertise in the field of research and data science. Their client base spans across a wide range of disciplines, including behavioral sciences, biostatistics, education, epidemiology, data science, education, finance, business, marketing, economics, institutional research, medicine, political science, public health, public policy and sociology.

Stata Reviews

Based on our most recent analysis, Stata reviews indicate a 'great' User Satisfaction Rating of 89% based on 155 user reviews from 1 recognized software review sites.

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Key Features

Easy Import and Export of Data: Users can import and export data from a myriad of formats, including XLS, CSV, spreadsheets, SQL sources, ASCII files, text, etc. Stata can also import files from SAS or SPSS, ensuring that it has compatibility with other popular statistical software.
Comprehensive Statistical Analysis: Stata can provide users all the statistics functions they need to perform data science, including but not limited to linear models, panel/longitudinal data, time series analysis, survival analysis, Bayesian analysis, selection models, choice models, extended regression models, generalized linear models, finite mixture models, spatial autoregressive models, nonlinear regression and more.
Predictive Analysis: Stata helps users anticipate the future. It has lasso tools that allow users to predict outcomes, characterize groups and patterns and perform inferential statistics on data.
Data Visualization: Users can create customizable bar charts, box plots, histograms, spike plots, pie charts, scatterplots, dot charts and more. With a graph editor, users can customize how their visualizations look, by adding, moving, modifying or removing elements, with the option to record changes and apply those edits to other graphs. Users can also write scripts to produce graphs en masse in a reproducible manner. Graphics can be exported to a variety of formats: EPS or TIFF for publication, PNG or SVG for online distribution, or PDF for viewing and sending.
Task Automation: Either with built-in procedures or self-written scripts, users can automate common tasks such as creating certain kinds of variables, producing specific tables, or performing a sequence of analyses. Users can then extend the benefits to their colleagues or all Stata users by turning their automation scripts into Stata commands that can be used in the same way as official Stata commands.
Advanced Programming: In addition to the fast and complete Stata programming languages ado and Mata, users can also incorporate C, C++ and Java plug-ins via a native API. Stata also has comprehensive Python integration, so users can embed and execute coding directly within the program.
Automated Reporting: Users can automate reports, which can be created in Word, Excel, PDF and HTML files directly from the solution. The look of the reports can be customized using Markdown text-formatting language.
Integrated Versioning: With built-in backwards compatibility, Stata will always be able to run scripts and programs written years and years ago in modern versions of its platform, generating the same results.
Language Support: Stata’s interface, including all menus and all dialogs, is available in multiple languages and will automatically match the user’s computer language settings. Languages supported include English, Chinese, German, Hindi, Japanese, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Swedish and Korean.

Limitations

Some of the product’s limitations include:

The vendor does not offer a free trial.
The platform does not support decision tree algorithms and natural language processing.
Forward compatibility is limited; users must save datasets in specific file formats to run in older versions.

Suite Support

One of Stata’s key offerings is its dedicated technical support and a vast library of resources. Every registered user can receive free support from a dedicated team of experts who can answer questions, assist in graphics customization and explain the ins and outs of statistical modeling. Support hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST, Monday through Friday except for holidays. Stata prefers users to contact technical support via email.

Email: Users who need technical support can email [email protected] and should include their serial number on the subject line of their email. Queries submitted via email are assigned to a specialist. During regular business hours, users should receive an acknowledgement email within one hour; if not, they should contact support again to ensure their email was not lost.

Users who need installation support can email [email protected].

Phone: During regular business hours, users can call support at 979-696-4600 with installation questions only. Users should have their serial number ready and be at their computer.

Training: Stata offers a wide variety of training options and resources. With a “Ready. Set. Go Stata” free webinar, new users can get started with the platform quickly. There is a database of frequently asked questions as well as more than 15,000 pages of detailed PDF documentation online. Stata also offers weekly video tutorials, free webinars, a blog, a quarterly publication journal about statistics, example graphs and more. For additional resources, Stata links to a host of community-contributed guides, tips and tutorials on learning Stata that supplement their own. Anyone can join Statalist, Stata’s official community forum, to discuss statistics and the platform with Stata experts and users for free.

Training options are similarly diverse. Inexpensive NetCourses, offered in an online weekly format, cover topics for users of all experience levels. For more intensive training, those who want to learn more about Stata can take classroom courses taught by experts or the web-based versions of these classes. In-depth on-site training is also available for large groups seeking instruction. Institutions other than StataCorp also offer online and in-person short courses about Stata.

Tickets: Stata does not offer a support ticket system. Instead, users should consult the resources available on the Stata website, including FAQs, documentation and community forum to ensure that their issue has not already been addressed. Users still experiencing problems can request support via email as detailed above.