Introduction to Stata

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Introduction to Stata CEP and STICERD London School of Economics October 2010 Alexander C. Lembcke eMail: Homepage: This is an updated version of Michal McMahon s Stata notes. He taught this course at the Bank of England (2008) and at the LSE (2006, 2007). It builds on earlier courses given by Martin Stewart (2004) and Holger Breinlich (2005). Any errors are my sole responsibility. Page 2 of 62 Full Table of contents GETTING TO KNOW Stata AND GETTING STARTED.

Functions Stata Variables Macros Matrices Data Stata : dta Excel: xls, csv Ascii: csv, dat , txt Y Text: string Numbers: integer double byte global local tempvar /name/file matrix vector scalar Stata is a command-driven package. Although the newest versions also have pull-down menus from which different commands

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