Welcome to this class!

This website will walk you through the tutorials for the Introduction to Stata course of Ecole Polytechnique’s Master program. The course has 3 main objectives: (i) know the basics of Stata (ii) manipulate the standard statistical and empirical tools (iii) make appealing output.

Practical information

TA: Mateo Moglia

Schedule: 2 sessions of 4 hours. Check Moodle before class in case of any change in classroom.

Required software: Stata. The software is provided on the lab’s computer. The data used in the tutorials are on Moodle.

Rules: Send me an email if you miss the class. You are grown-up adults, I trust you to follow thoroughly the class. Do not hesitate to work in small groups.

Data: Data are here.

Evaluation: There is no evaluation.

Log

• v0.0 - 15/09/25 - Creation

Class outline

• Part 0: First hand on Stata
  • Discover Stata
  • Do-files and logs
• Part 1: Open data
  • Open and manipulate data
  • Clean databases
  • Macro and locals
  • Loops
• Part 2: Descriptive statistics
  • Compute descriptive statistics
  • Export them in .tex
  • Linear regressions
• Part 3: Data visualization
  • Scatter plots/linear regression
  • Bar/density charts (imports exports)
  • Line charts (life exp.)
  • Box plots (temperature)
  • Regression coefficients (auto)

During sessions, I will walk you through all materials covered here. I provide some exercises that you are required to perform.

About this site and my inspirations

I created this site for teaching purpose. It is of course perfectible and any constructive comment is more than welcome (write me an email!). I took inspiration from the teaching resources listed here.