We’ll now teach you to make your variables more approachable by adding labels. Note the different sections for “Label” and “Value label”. A label just provides a description of the variable, while a value label matches numbers to words. The post Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #13: Changing variable labels using label, encode, and decode appeared first on The Analysis Factor.| The Analysis Factor
In this article we’ll walk you through the details of creating, naming, combining, saving, and exporting graphs in Stata.| The Analysis Factor
In this post, we’ll expand your type-changing skills to include strings with two new commands| The Analysis Factor
From our last posts in this series, you should be comfortable with how Stata handles data editing, as well as with making your own variables. In this post, we’ll talk about commands that edit the content or storage type of your variables in Stata: recode and recast. Let’s start off with the recode command. We’ll […] The post Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #11: Editing Variables Using recode and recast appeared first on The Analysis Factor.| The Analysis Factor
The first steps in editing data with Stata include saving data, reordering variables, and dropping variables.| The Analysis Factor
Stata code has a few simple rules and conventions. Knowing these will help you get started and greatly increase your efficiency.| The Analysis Factor