Section outline

  • Data management and cleaning part 1

    Renaming variables, generating new variables, modifying the codebook and recoding variables, if statements, data cleaning best practices and shortcuts

    Faculty:  Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    • Lecture Slides:

    • Lecture 3 2021- data cleaning part 1 File
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    • Lecture 3 2021 - Stata Demo do-file
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    • acupuncture_raw.csv File

    • Lecture Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lecture 3 2021 part 1 - modifying existing variables, labels Media Resource
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    • Lecture 3 2021 part 2 - creating new variables, keep/drop Media Resource
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    • Lecture 3 2021 part 3 - outliers, string variables Media Resource
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    • Large Group Discussion (Access restricted to registered students): Brief formal review of lecture followed by question and answer discussion. Recorded lecture should be viewed prior to this session.

    • L3 Large Group Session Slides File
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    • Additional Resources:

    • [Book] An Introduction to Stata for Health researchers

      • Ch. 8. Calculations
      • Ch. 9. Commands affecting data structure

      • Ch. 10 Taking good care of your data

      Stata data management manual

    • UCLA Data Management in STATA Tutorial URL

    • Assignment:

    • Midterm assignment and data Folder
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    • Assignment Due Date:

    • Turn in Data Cleaning Midterm here - Due 8/17 @ 1PM PDT Assignment

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Midterm Answer Key Folder
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