Speaking Stata: Compared with ...
TL;DR: This column reviews some basic Stata techniques helpful for data management tasks, including the use of subscripts, summarize, by:, sum(), cond(), and egen.
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Abstract: Many problems in data management center on relating values to values in other observations, either within a dataset as a whole or within groups such as panels. This column reviews some basic Stata ...
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors give examples of problems and code for basic calculations as a prelude to graphics, tables, and more detailed analysis, with a tutorial covering sorting and ranking and using if and in to select observations.
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Speaking Stata: Self and others
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Stata-based analysis of data for people in a family, firms in a sector, or members of any kind of group are often analyzed using data for the other members in each group.
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Speaking Stata: Replacing missing values: The easiest problems
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TL;DR: This column includes how to satisfy constraints that interpolation is confined to filling gaps between values known to be equal or to observations moderately close to a known value in time or in some other sequence or position variable.
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Speaking Stata: How to Move Step By: Step:
TL;DR: The by varlist: construct as discussed by the authors can be used to tackle a variety of problems with group structure, such as numerical evaluation of true and false conditions, which is a fairly complete tutorial on numerical evaluation.
Depending on conditions: a tutorial on the cond() function
David Kantor,Nicholas J. Cox +1 more
TL;DR: This is a tutorial on the cond() function, giving explanations and examples and assessing its advantages and limitations.
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Speaking Stata: On getting functions to do the work
TL;DR: These are surveyed, giving a variety of tips and tricks, and noting the large number of user-written egen functions available for download from the Internet.
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Speaking Stata: Making it Count:
TL;DR: The count command has one simple role, to count observations in general or that satisfy some condition(s). This task can be useful when some larger problem pivots on counting, especially if count i... as discussed by the authors.
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