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• Sample session
• Main Stata window
  • Menus and dialogs
  • Command and Results windows
  • Review window
  • Variables window
• Data Editor
  • Renaming and formatting variables
  • Hide, show, and order your data
• Viewer
  • Installing user-written commands
• Do-file Editor
• Graph window and Editor

• Current working directory
• Loading and saving data
• Working with data
  • Stata’s command syntax
  • The data in memory
  • Value labels
  • Formats
  • Notes
  • Other kinds of labels
• Keeping logs
• Safe computing
• Basic data reporting
• Data management
• Making strings into numerical categorical variables
  • Doing things the long way
  • The second solution
  • The best solution
• Observation subscripts _n and _N
• Memory management

Course leaders are available for discussion during the break.

• Obtaining data
• Import and export Excel data
  • import excel
  • export excel
• Import and export text data
  • import delimited
  • export delimited
• Other commands to import and export data
  • Import and export data from and to a database (ODBC)
  • Undelimited text data
  • Import and export SAS XPORT files
  • Import Haver databases
  • Import Federal Reserve Economic Data
  • Translate shapefiles
• Reading dates and times

• Appending data
• Merging data
  • Notes about merge
  • Merge with repeated variables
• An example of append and merge
• Wide versus long data
• How to think about variables and their contents