Creating Graphs in Stata: From Percentiles to Observe Trends (Part 2)

by Jeff Meyer

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by Jeff Meyer, MPA, MBA

In a previous post we discussed the difficulties of spotting meaningful information when we work with a large panel data set.

Observing the data collapsed into groups, such as quartiles or deciles, is one approach to tackling this challenging task.  We showed how this can be easily done in Stata using just 10 lines of code.

As promised, we will now show you how to graph the collapsed data. [click to continue…]

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