Johan Osterberg - Product Engineer

Stata offers basic graphic visualization, which can be useful to get grasp of the distribution of a variable. As evertything in Stata, it's…

I recently re-visited one of my all-time favorite books on software engineering, The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks. The main reason for…

When working with a continous variable such as income it is often needed to get an overview its distributional properties. Let's look at the…

For the purpose of this tutorial, I'm gonna be using the sample data set demo.sav, available under installdir/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/[version…

Let's look at some examples of recoding variables in Stata. First off we'll recode a numeric variable into categories using the auto dataset…

Recoding variables in Stata is very simple. It is useful in many scenarios, for instance where you would want to merge a variable containing…

In a previous post we looked briefly at the summarize command, let's look a bit deeper. When opening a new dataset it's a great way to get…

Some of the most basic utility commands to summarize, describe and get an overview of your data are When opening a new dataset it's crucial…

In this short post we'll look at importing data from an Excel file into Stata. For this example we'll use some training data from another…

When working with long commands sometimes you want to split them into several lines in your do-files, for brevity or readability (or…