Deck 2: Introduction to STATA

Question 1

Which of the following do we use to type in commands in Stata?

A) Command window
B) Review window
C) Variables window
D) Do-file editor

Answer 1

A,D

Question 2

Which of the following is the command to open a dataset?

A) pwd
B) describe
C) use
D) open

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is the command that will give us the mean of a variable?

A) describe
B) codebook
C) sum
D) mean

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following codes are wrong?

A) gen age2==age*age
B) gen age2=age*age
C) keep if gender==2
D) keep if gender=2

Question 5

Which of the following commands is used for combining datasets based on observations?

A) merge
B) list
C) reshape
D) append