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Stupid Monkey Commands

In which I finally sort of start understanding how to do basic commands in STATA:

My task:

1. Figure out the path to the sampledataset.dta file
2. Compute the Mean and Standard Deviation of the sample_variable
3. Figure out how many standard deviation units below the mean the figure 19 is
4. Use command "normal" to compute the answer

How this translates to STATA:

clear

capture log closelog using sampledataset, text replace
use sampledataset

summarize sample_variable
local SDunits=(19-r(mean))/r(sd)

display normal(`SDunits')
display `SDunits'

log close

This is so lame.

To think, I might pimp out my doctrinal analysis skills to code cases into variables for my stats teacher this semester.

Full post as published by Law and Letters on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).