estat

Estat is a term with multiple meanings across languages and disciplines. In Catalan, estat means state or condition and is used to refer to political entities, governments, or the current status of affairs. It appears in everyday and official language, including discussions of governance and public administration. The Catalan word is cognate with the Spanish estado and the French État, reflecting common Romance-language roots for the concept of a political or social state.

In computing and statistics, estat refers to a postestimation command family in the Stata software. After fitting a model, users invoke estat to access and display additional statistics and tests derived from the estimation results. The estat command provides a structured interface to retrieve information such as variance-covariance matrices, information criteria, and various postestimation diagnostics. It helps users validate models, interpret coefficients, and assess the robustness of findings by offering a range of summarizing and diagnostic tools.

Outside these contexts, estat can appear as part of larger words or acronyms, most notably appearing in Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, where estat forms part of a longer institutional name rather than functioning as a standalone term. Because of its use in different domains, estat is best understood within its specific linguistic or technical context.