Stata tutorials

The following links will take you videos of individual Stata tutorials. The other links are to downloadable text which should be opened within the Stata programme.

[Download the demo data file]                  

1. Introduction and basic housekeeping                  

• Introducing the software (opening a data file and browsing its contents) - [download the .do file]                     
• Typing in data, changing variable names, adding labels, and adding values - [download the .do file]                    
• Using .do-files                    

2. Manipulating data                  

• Creating a grouped variable from a continuous variable - download the .do file]           
• Mathematically transforming a variable - [download the .do file]              
• Selecting and sampling cases - [download the .do file]               
• Weighting - [download the .do file]

3. Descriptive analyses                  

Univariate (one variable at a time)

• Describing a continuous variable: measures of central tendency and dispersion; histogram - [download the .do file]
• Describing a categorical (ordinal) variable: frequency table; bar chart - [download the .do file]               

4. Bivariate (exploring relationships between pairs of variables)                  

• Contingency tables: To describe the association between two categorical variables - [download the .do file]       
• Correlation coefficients: Describing the association between two continuous variables - [download the .do file]
• Drawing a scatter plot: Visualising the association between two continuous variables - [download the. do file]        
• Box plots, stem-and-leaf plots: Visualising the association between a continuous and a categorical variable; or comparing the distribution of a continuous variable between two groups - [download the .do file] 

5. Inferential statistical analyses                  

With a continuous responses or dependent variable                  

• Independent samples t‐test: Comparing the means of two groups (continuous response variable, binary explanatory variable) - [download the .do file]
• Simple linear regression: Testing the linear association between two continuous variables (continuous response variable, continuous explanatory variable) - download the .do file] 
• Multiple linear regression: Testing the linear association between a continuous response variable and more than one explanatory variable (continuous response variable, explanatory variables various levels of measurement) - [download the .do file]      

6. With a categorical response or dependent variable                  

• Two‐way and three-way contingency tables and chi-squared tests: Testing the association between two categorical variables; and between two categorical variables conditioning on levels of a third categorical variable - [download the .do file]  
• Binary logistic regression: Testing the association between a binary response variable and explanatory variables with various levels of measurement - [download the .do file]

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