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Stata is commercial statistical software, developed by William Gould in 1985. StatCorp currently owns/develops Stata and markets the product as “fast, accurate, and easy to use with both a point‐and‐click interface and a powerful, intuitive command syntax” (https://www.stata.com/). However, most Stata users maintain the point‐and‐click workflow. Stata strives to provide user confidence through regulatory certification.

Stata provides hundreds of tools across broad applications and methods. Even Bayesian modeling and maximum‐likelihood estimation are available. With its breadth, Stata targets all sectors – academia, industry, and government.

Overall, Stata impresses through active support and development while possessing some unique characteristics. Interestingly, in scholarly work over the past decade, only SPSS, R, and SAS have overshadowed Stata [4]. Taken together, we anticipate Stata to remain popular. However, Stata's big data capabilities are limited, and we have reservations whether industry will adopt Stata over competitors.