In this article, we will go over the difference between R-Class and E-Class commands and how we can access information through them. Whenever we execute a command in Stata, it stores the results in one of these commands. It is very common to use these commands to extract and use the result they store in […]
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This article goes over what scalars and matrices are and how to work with them in Stata. To illustrate the concepts, we will use Stata’s built in automobile dataset which can be loaded by using the following command: Download Example File sysuse auto.dta, clear What Are Scalars and Matrices Scalars can be defined as placeholders
Whenever you are working with more than one dataset, it is highly likely that you will need to combine them together to perform any analysis. In Stata, this is referred to as merging. There are different types of merges depending on the situation. Each type of merge is explained in its relevant sections. The topic
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In this article, we will learn how to convert categorical variables into numerical variables (Also look at destring and encode). Suppose we have a dataset on patients and the drugs they have been administered. If drugA is administered to a patient, the variable shows ‘yes’, if not, it shows a ‘no’. The following image depicts
This article is going to discuss how to combine multiple Excel data files into one Stata file. Let’s suppose we have 15 Excel files, each file with daily stock market data of one company. In order to combine data for all 15 companies in one file, we follow three steps: Download Example File Step 1:
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