Stata 18 prioritized "publication-ready" automation to reduce manual formatting:
Visualizations received a major aesthetic and functional overhaul: stata 18 exclusive
Going beyond standard regression, researchers can now isolate and quantify direct and indirect causal pathways. stata 18 exclusive
: New tools to untangle the mechanisms through which an exposure affects an outcome. stata 18 exclusive
Stata graphics are powerful, but editing them post-estimation used to require a PhD in Stata syntax (or clicking endlessly in the Graph Editor).