Stata Summary Statistics. If we prefer that collapse use only the 15 000 observations for which income is not missing we can specify the cw casewise option. Stata provides the summarize command which allows you to see the mean and the standard deviation but it does not provide the five number summary min q25 median q75 max.
In this workshop you will learn to use stata to create basic summary statistics cross tabulations and increasingly rich tables of summary statistics. Summary statistics are a way to explore your dataset find patterns and maybe even refine your question of interest. The describe command shows you basic information about a stata data file.
Here we will use the auto data file.
You can use the detail option but then you get a page of output for every variable. Summarize calculates and displays a variety of univariate summary statistics. As you can see it tells us the number of observations in the file the number of variables the names of the variables and more. Tab class sum edu gives.
