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Member Training: Introduction to Data Analysis using R Tutorial

June 12th, 2025 by

This month we are featuring a 9-module software tutorial by Kim Love: An Introduction to Data Analysis using R.

It’s perfect for people who:

  • have never used R before
  • need to refresh their R skills after not using it for while
  • have figured out R on their own and would like a more systematic tutorial

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Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #12: Changing Variables to and from Strings

May 29th, 2025 by

From the last post in this series, you should know how to change between numeric types and easily change numeric data We’ll now expand your type-changing skills to include changing string variables with two new commands.   (more…)


Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #11: Editing Variables Using recode and recast

May 12th, 2025 by

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.

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Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #10: Four Commands to Create New Variables in Stata

April 29th, 2025 by

From our last article, you should feel comfortable with the idea of editing and saving data sets in Stata. In this article, we’ll explain how to create new variables in Stata using replace, generate, egen, and clonevar.

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Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #9: Saving, Reordering, and Dropping Data

March 17th, 2025 by

Stata makes it a breeze to edit or clean your data. If you’re unfamiliar with using data sets in Stata, check out these blog posts to get a good grasp on importing and browsing data in Stata.

For this tutorial we will be using Stata’s “auto” data set. If you haven’t loaded it in yet, type

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Member Training: Confirmatory Factor Analysis

March 3rd, 2025 by

There are two main types of factor analysis: exploratory and confirmatory.

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