Re: st: how to obtain the correlation matrix from a dataset

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 03:11 AM 1/3/2004 +0800, rghuang wrote:
> what command should i use?thank you!
One quick answer to your question is -corr-, possibly adding the -means- 
parameter if you want descriptive statistics, e.g.

corr  income educ jobexp, means

If you are looking for examples of how to use Stata for basic statistics 
(e.g. Anova, t-tests, OLS regression -- the kind of stuff that gets covered 
in an introductory statistics course) I've recently added several examples 
to one of my course web pages.  I'm not saying they are the best examples, 
but they are free :)  See

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/xsoc592/index.html

and look for links that have the word "Stata" in them. I'll probably be 
adding Stata handouts for more advanced methods as I teach my 2nd semester 
course.  Other handouts on those pages explain the methods and give SPSS 
examples.

Incidentally, if you were going to buy one book and one book only on Stata, 
I would recommend Hamilton's "Statistics with Stata."  A new edition using 
version 8 is supposed to be out very soon now.

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