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Quandl Package – 5,000,000 free datasets at the tip of your fingers!

# Yes, you read that correctly and no Quandl (http://www.quandl.com/) did not pay me anything.# Quandl is a new database management tool which seeks to become the place to find datasets.  They boast of having over 5×10^6 data sets available t…

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May 5th, 2013 | Category: data, Data Analysis, econometrics, quandl, R, r packages, Stata | Leave a comment

Use Expand to Manually Reshape Data

do file* Imagine that you have a wide data set that you would like to convert to a long data set.* Your data set is structured in the following manner.clearset obs 1000gen id = _nforv i=1/4 {  gen var1_`i’ = rnormal()  gen var2_`i’ = rnormal(…

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January 22nd, 2013 | Category: data, expand, long, reshape, Stata, wide | Comments are closed

Data transfer from Matlab to Stata and reverse

Zip file with Matlab code to export or import datasets to Stata. For use in conjunction with “insheet/outsheet”. Importing data from Stata is restricted to numeric variables (but not the reverse).(also includes scripts for dropping missing obs in matla…

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May 18th, 2010 | Category: code, data, matlab, Stata, statistics | Leave a comment