Transcription of Introduction to Stata - LSE
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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 .. 7 Textbooks .. 7 DIRECTORIES AND FOLDERS .. 8 READING DATA INTO Stata .. 8 use .. 8 insheet .. 8 infix .. 9 Stat/Transfer program .. 10 Manual typing or copy-and-paste .. 10 VARIABLE AND DATA TYPES .. 11 Indicator or data variables.
Page 6 of 62 Variables Do/Ado - Files Command window Interactive (Menus) Output Save/Export Stata Mata User written Functions Stata Variables Macros Matrices
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