1
Introduction
2
Acknowledgments
3
Getting Started
3.1
Prerequisites
3.2
Software Requirements
3.3
How to use these materials
3.3.1
The Larger Exercises
3.3.2
Skippable
3.3.3
General advice
3.4
Data
3.5
Reference material
3.6
To be added
4
Some Stata basics
4.1
Folders
4.2
Exercise
4.3
Exercise
4.4
Common File types
5
The do file
5.1
Initialising your script
5.2
Exercise
5.2.1
Solution
5.3
Which directory?
5.4
Change to your data directory
5.5
Exercise
6
Dataset
6.1
Data Types
6.2
Interpretation of
describe
output
6.2.1
Storage type
6.2.2
Format types
6.3
Interpretation of codebook
6.4
Exercise
7
Listing and Sorting
7.1
Listing cases
7.2
Exercise
7.3
Sorting
7.4
gsort
8
Detecting and correcting
8.1
Exercise
8.2
Exercise
8.3
Replacing values
8.4
Exercise
9
Generating new values and recoding existing values
9.1
New values
9.2
Exercise
9.3
Recoding values
9.4
Exercise
10
Selecting
10.1
Selecting variables
10.2
Exercise
10.3
Selecting cases
10.4
Using a filter variable
10.5
The uses of _all
10.6
Exercise
10.7
Creating a custom variable list
11
Labelling
11.1
Variables
11.2
Exercise
11.3
Values
11.4
Exercise
12
Some exploratory analysis
12.1
Simple visualisations
12.2
Exercise
12.3
Summary statistics
12.4
Exercise
13
Tables
13.1
Tables with custom statistics
13.2
Customized tables
13.2.1
A
tabulation
with customized layout
14
Some simple graph scripts
14.1
Introduction
14.2
What will you learn?
14.3
Exercise
14.4
Basic types of Stata graph
14.5
The basic
graph
command and some simple examples
14.6
Exercise
14.7
Creating a graph adding elements and changing defaults: box plot example
14.8
Exercise
14.9
Adornments
14.10
Exercise
14.11
Subset the data
14.12
Exporting the graph to Word from your script
14.13
Creating and exporting several graphs in a loop
15
Larger Exercises Part I
16
Hypothesis tests
16.1
For two categorical variables
16.2
Exercise
16.3
For one continuous and one categorical variable of two levels
16.4
Exercise
16.5
The paired samples ttest
16.6
Once continuous and one categorical variable of more than two levels
16.6.1
One way ANOVA and post-hoc testing
16.7
Two continuous variables
16.8
Correlation
16.9
Exercise
16.9.1
Simple visualisation of correlation
16.10
Exercise
17
Regression
17.1
Simple Linear Regression
17.2
Exercise
17.3
Multiple linear regression
17.4
Exercise
17.5
Regression with categorical variables
17.6
Exercise
18
Larger Exercises Part II
19
Notes
Data Manipulation and Analysis in Stata
19
Notes