Stat 13
Fall 2008
Nesbitt 2C
Lab 1 - Introduction to Stata
1. Start STATA: Go to Finder →Applications →Stata (folder) and
finally double click on the file called Stata (that has it’s icon next to
it).
You should see four windows: Review, Variables, Results and Com-
mand.
2. If you would like to take notes as we go along you can use Pages: Go
to Finder →Applications →iWork’08 →Pages. This is the word
processor that we will be using in lab. If you will be working on this
document from home and use Microsoft Word, you can export the
document as a Word document and email it to yourself. Go to File →
Export and choose Word format.
(Note: Most email accounts don’t let you attach Pages files so export-
ing it to Word is usually a good idea if you’ll be emailing the file to
yourself.)
3. Load data:
use http://www.stat.ucla.edu/labs/datasets/smallcen.dta
4. Exploring the data:
•Getting an overview of the data file
describe
Q: What is the data set? How many variables are there? How
many observations?
•Listing each observation:
list
In order to stop a list, use:
q
To get a list of one variable at a time:
list gender
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