Posts tagged: distribution

Let's look at two statistical concepts commonly used to describe a distribution - skewness and kurtosis. Skewness is a measurement of the…

Just as with commands such as describe or summarize, drawing pie charts can be useful when familiarizing with a new dataset (or for…

In this quick tutorial we'll look at performing a chi-square test on a single sample. More specifically, we'll look into performing a…

Performing a Kernel density estimation in Stata is a simple task. In particular it can be visualized by way of a kernel density plot which…

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

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…

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…