Getting Started in Data
Analysis using Stata
(ver. 3.0 beta, click here to download)
Oscar Torres-Reyna
Data Consultant
http://dss.princeton.edu/training/
List of topics
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What
is Stata? q
Stata
screen and general description) q
First
steps (log, memory and directory) q
Example
of a dataset in Excel q
From
Excel to Stata q
Saving
the dataset q
Menu
options for describe and summarize q
Menu
options to rename and label variables q
Creating
new variables q
Recoding
variables q
Recoding
variables using egen q
Value
labels using the menu q
Indexing ü
Creating
ids and ids by categories ü
Lags
and forward values ü
Countdown
and specific values q
Sorting q
Deleting
variables q
Merge q
Append q
Merging
fuzzy text (reclink) q
Examples
of frequencies and crosstabulations q
Frequently
used Stata commands |
q
Graphs ü
Scatterplot ü
Histograms ü
Catplot
(for categorical data) ü
Bars
(graphing mean values) q
Regression:
ü
Overview
and basic setting ü
Descriptive
statistics ü
Output
interpretation (what to look for) ü
Correlation
matrix ü
Graph
matrix ü
Saving
regression coefficients ü
F-test ü
Testing
for linearity ü
Testing
for normality ü
Testing
for homoskedasticity ü
Testing
for omitted-variable bias ü
Testing
for multicolinearity ü
Robust
standard errors ü
Specification
error ü
Outliers q
Useful
sites (links only) ü
Is
my model OK? ü
I
can’t read the output of my
model!!! ü
Topics
in Statistics ü
Recommended
books |