From the course: Introduction to Stata
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Exploring data: Challenge - Stata Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Stata
Exploring data: Challenge
(upbeat electronic music) - [Instructor] Let's look at some data exploration challenges. This will help reinforce the knowledge you've already gained from the previous videos. The first challenge is to load a new training dataset. The dataset is called NLSW88. This data file is used to study labor force patterns of a group of woman in a particular age. Can you identify the age range? Can you also identify what variables are continuous, and which are categorical? For the next challenge, education is thought to be positively correlated with wages. Can you tabulate the education range and summarize the average hourly wage for each education category? And for the final challenge, wages are an important labor market indicator. Explore this variable in more detail, and test whether it is normally distributed or not. These challenges should take you about five minutes to complete. And I'll show you how I did them in the…
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