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Descriptive Statistics

To calculate descriptive statistics using the Stata menu, select Statistics, Summaries, tables and tests, and then select Summary and descriptive statistics.

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Finally, select Summary statistics.

A pop-up window will appear. To obtain descriptive statistics for all variables, simply click the OK button. An example of the output produced is shown below, using data from the S & P 500. You can see that, for each variable, Stata provides the number of observations, mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum.

Summary results

Last updated:
December 01, 2008

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