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Stata Press
This second edition of Data Management Using Stata focuses on tasks that bridge the gap between raw data and statistical analysis. It has been updated throughout to reflect new data management features that have been added over the last 10 years. Such features include the ability to read and write a wide variety of file formats, the ability to write highly customized Excel files, the ability to... Read more
Introduction. Reading and importing data files. Saving and exporting data files. Data cleaning. Labeling datasets. Creating variables. Combining datasets. Processing observations across subgroups. Changing the shape of your data. Programming for data management: Part I. Programming for data management: Part II.
Biography
Michael Mitchell is a senior statistician working in the area of sleep research as well as working on prevention of child maltreatment with the Children's Data Network. He is the author of three other Stata Press books: A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics, Interpreting and Visualizing regression Models Using Stata, and Stata for the Behavioral Sciences.
