Section outline

  • Lecture: 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:  Amanda Irish

    • Live Interactive Discussion: Zoom URL. Brief formal review of lecture followed by question and answer discussion. Recorded lecture should be viewed prior to this session.

    • Lecture Slides:

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

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

    • Lecture 3 part 1 - modifying existing variables, labels Media Resource
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    • Lecture 3 part 2 - creating new variables, keep/drop Media Resource
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    • Lecture 3 part 3 - outliers, string variables Media Resource
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    • Recommended readings:

    • [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

    • Assignment Due Date:

    • Turn in Data Cleaning Midterm here Assignment

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

    • Midterm example key Folder
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