美国俄亥俄州立大学讲义：Introduction to Stata.pptVIP

Introduction to Stata with thanks to Stacy Woodard, Ph.D. Center for Biostatistics Ohio State University Where you are Sociology Instruction Lab (SIL), 70 Derby Hall used for computer courses not the Sociology Research Lab (SRL), in Bricker used for computer research Logging in to the SIL Turn on computer Enter your user name If your OSU email is buendia.100@ then your SIL user name is buendia.100 not the same as in SRL Enter your password your first initial + last 4 digits of your SS# + your last initial e.g., Jose Arcadio Buendia, SS# 100-10-0100 password j0100b again not the same as in SRL Opening Stata (in the SIL) Lower left corner, click Start Choose All programs Analysis Stata 9 Logging commands Save your commands to a file You may want to re-use them later! (Press return) called a “command log” or “Do-file” Opening Stata data files Stata has its own format for data files extension *.dta Choose File?Open Go to S:\stata_intro\nmihs100.dta S: in the SIL is not the same as S: in the SRL 100 records from National Maternal and Infant Health Survey (NMIHS) in Stata format Importing data Stata can also read tab-delimited ASCII text files Most other software (e.g., Excel)can write tab-delimited ASCII text files Let’s get data from Excel…. From Windows Start button choose All Programs?Office Productivity?Microsoft Office?Excel In Excel choose File?Open find S:\stata_intro\example1.xls choose File?Save As…?Save as type: Text (tab delimited) Save as X:\example1.txt In Stata In command window, type “clear”—gets current data out of memory Choose File?Import?ASCII data created by a spreadsheet Find X:\example1.txt Examining data Exercise Move smoke and bwt to the first two columns Save your changes Close the editor Saving data “Preserve” saves only a temporary copy of the data file. The original data file is unaffected. To save a permanent data file, Choose File?Save As… Navigate to your X: drive X: is where you should save things X: in the SIL is not the same