Transcription of 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 .. 5 WHY Stata ? .. 5 WHAT Stata LOOKS LIKE .. 5 data IN Stata .. 6 GETTING HELP .. 7 Manuals .. 7 Stata s in-built help and website .. 7 The 7 Colleagues.
data in some kind of ASCII file. So you should be able to load all data into Stata. When you enter the data in Stata it will be in the form of variables. Variables are organized as column vectors with individual observations in each row. They can hold numeric data as well as strings. Each row is associated with one observation, that is the
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