Stata and R : a course for junior students major in economics

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##Stata

###Lecture 1. Introduction (I)

i. The connection and differences between Excel and Stata
ii. What Stata is?
iii.Why we have to learn stata? Is there any other choices?
iv. The GUI of stata
v. The windows of stata
vi. Basic rules in do-file editor
vii. One sample t test on Stata
viii. FAQ

###Lecture 2. Introduction (II)

i. Let's read help files together
ii. Setting the path
iii. Global macro-variable
iv. About logfile
v. Basic matrix operation stata

###Exercise

i. Two sample t test on Stata
ii. Ways to import .txt .csv .xlsx etc.
iii. Useful commands for beginners:

To install new packages: ssc install/hot/new
Data description:des sum tab collapse
Data clean: gen drop replace label
Graph: twoway scatter, graph pie, histogram

iv.esttab,esttab& estout
v. HW1

##R

###Lecture 1.

R& RStudio
install.package()
basic data description