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Using the Encode Command In Stata to Convert String Variable

Often times, we have to work with categorical variables when doing statistical analysis. Categorical variables are those variables that have two or more categories or groups. For example, a variable representing sectors in a stock market could have categories like tech, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, cement, banks etc. These categories of string type may also be needed …

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Using Sort command in Stata

STATA / By Zartasha

The bulk of data used in Stata for analysis purpose is mostly found in random observations. This data usually don’t follow the ascending or descending sequence. However, if we arrange data in a certain manner, it becomes easy to handle it, especially when it is in bulk. Note that, here, we are talking about arranging …

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Data Frames in Stata | Store Multiple Datasets in Stata Memory

STATA / By Ayesha Irfan

Data frames allow users to hold multiple datasets in memory at the same time, and work on all of them. While this concept has been present in other data analysis software like R and Python for a while, it was introduced to Stata in Stata 16. With data frames in Stata, you don’t have to …

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output correlation table in stata using estout

Publication Style Correlation Table in Stata

STATA / By Ayesha Irfan

This article gives a comprehensive overview of three Stata commands from the estout package that are used to output publication style correlation table in . Though this package is capable of reporting outputs for regression results and summary statistics as well, it is particularly useful for outputting correlation tables too. If you want to understand …

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