Posts tagged: statistics

On this blog i frequently feature examples from Stata, but also from SPSS, Microsoft Excel and R Studio. They are all are popular software…

The codebook command in Stata is useful for initial data exploration. Like tabulate or inspect it provides a quick overview of a dataset…

In Stata categorical or binary, indicator, dummy variables (used interchangably) are treated as factor variables. Examples of categorical…

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…

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…

In this post we'll have a look at the table command which can be used to visualise summary statistics by tabulating variables against one…

Stata is a powerful statistics package, that has been around since the mid '80-s or so. And it sure looks like it! That was my first…