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PubHlth 691F Section 2 - 2012

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Lecture Notes 2012, 6. STATA for Data Description	(pdf, 27 pp) Tip! Try the commands as you read along by downloading 2 data sets to your desktop. Right click to download relate100obs.dta wws1000.dta
Reading in text, Acock AC. A Gentle Introduction to Stata	Chapter 5 - Descriptive Statistics and Graphs for One Variable. pp 87-112 Note to class- For now, focus on descriptive statistics only. Graphs are introduced in Unit 7.
Homework Assignment due Monday October 29, 2012	(pdf, 2 pp) Data set with n=2,765: descriptive_gss.dta Data set with n=900: descriptive_gss_small.dta
SOLUTIONS to Homework	(pdf, 4 pp)

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