As one of my best friends, Bernie, comments every single day: Stata has the most unreasonable syntax, and it is stupid to use it at an expensive fee. (His words).

Nevertheless, I was driven by a series of path dependencies and ended up using Stata as my primary statistical software for both school and work. Here I provide some of the codes that I found useful in getting around Stata.

Stata cheatsheet found on google

Mata cheatsheet by Assad Naqvi (one of the best Stata experts)