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Save to Library Save. Create Alert Alert. Share This Paper. Background Citations. Methods Citations. Topics from this paper. Stata Working directory Planning. Software documentation Organizing structure Directory computing. Plasma cleaning. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. Workflows for quantitative data analysis in the social sciences.

Bayesian Workflow. View 1 excerpt, cites background. Introduction to Stata. Scott Long. View 2 excerpts, cites methods. View 2 excerpts, cites background. Administrative social science data: The challenge of reproducible research. Long guides you toward streamlining your workflow, because a good workflow is essential for replicating your work, and replication is essential for good science.

An efficient workflow reduces the time you spend doing data management and lets you produce datasets that are easier to analyze. When you methodically clean your data and carefully choose names and effective labels for your variables, the time you spend doing statistical and graphical analyses will be more productive and more enjoyable. After introducing workflows and explaining how a better workflow can make it easier to work with data, Long describes planning, organizing, and documenting your work.

He then introduces how to write and debug Stata do-files and how to use local and global macros. Long presents conventions that greatly simplify data analysis—conventions for naming, labeling, documenting, and verifying variables.

He also covers cleaning, analyzing, and protecting your data. While describing effective workflows, Long also introduces the concepts of basic data management using Stata and writing Stata do-files. Using real-world examples, Stata commands, and Stata scripts, Long illustrates effective techniques for managing your data and analyses. If you analyze data, this book is recommended for you. You have written the book that I had planned to write someday. Congratulations, this was greatly needed.

I just wanted to send you a thank you for taking the time to write this book. I feel a little like an obsessed fan because I read it for several hours last night, bought 3 copies for my new research team and am presenting our new organization scheme tomorrow. It is a perfect time to superimpose a structure. I learned a lot from reading this. Thank you! Elizabeth Gifford, Ph. Research Scientist Duke University. I immediately ripped off the packaging and began perusing it.

Just before the knock, I was attempting to write a program to get Stata to save the r mean and r sd for two variables following a summarize command to be saved for a ttesti command. After looking at your book for about two minutes, I stumbled upon pages 91—92, where it gave me all the information I need. Thanks much, and I am already looking forward to reading the rest of the book! I am a Spanish professor of public economics who is at present enjoying a study-research leave at Melbourne University Australia.

Because of that I have had the time to read your book from cover to cover. I just want to thank you for the incredible work you have done!

A book such as this one is a must for anyone trying to make an academic career. Definitely, I will recommend it to my graduate students as soon as I go back to Spain. If I had the chance to reach this book twenty years ago I would have been much more efficient doing my work. Never is it too late! Jose Felix Sanz-Sanz Dept. He was editor of Sociological Methods and Research from to Long has authored or edited seven previous books on statistics, including the highly acclaimed Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables.

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And best of all, whenever I have my tablet with me, my books are just a swipe away. Author: J. A sample page from a research log A template for research logs. Use lots of comments Use alignment and indentation Use short lines Limit your abbreviations Be consistent.

Commands that belong in every do-file A template for simple do-files A more complex do-file template.