Stata Summary Statistics. This module shows common commands for showing descriptive information and descriptive statistics about data files. Here we will use the auto data file.
As you can see it tells us the number of observations in the file the number of variables the names of the variables and more. Summary statistics are a way to explore your dataset find patterns and maybe even refine your question of interest. This module shows common commands for showing descriptive information and descriptive statistics about data files.
Tab class sum edu gives.
Quick start basic summary statistics for continuous variable v1 summarize v1 same as above and include v2 and v3 summarize v1 v3. Tabstat displays summary statistics for a series of numeric variables in one table possibly broken down on conditioned by another variable. If no varlist is speciļ¬ed summary statistics are calculated for all the variables in the dataset. In this workshop you will learn to use stata to create basic summary statistics cross tabulations and increasingly rich tables of summary statistics.