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…)
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Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #12: Changing Variables to and from Strings
May 29th, 2025 by TAF Support
Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #11: Editing Variables Using recode and recast
May 12th, 2025 by TAF Support
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.
Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #10: Four Commands to Create New Variables in Stata
April 29th, 2025 by TAF Support
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.
Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #9: Saving, Reordering, and Dropping Data
March 17th, 2025 by TAF Support
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
Member Training: Confirmatory Factor Analysis
March 3rd, 2025 by TAF Support
Member Training: Introduction to Binary Logistic Regression
December 3rd, 2024 by TAF Support
Binary logistic regression is one of the most useful regression models. It allows you to predict, classify, or understand explanatory relationships between a set of predictors and a binary outcome.
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