4 Describing data
After you have cleaned your data, checked for errors and problems and created new variables, it is time to describe your data. Every piece of scientific research, no matter whether it is a seminar paper or a thesis, will include a part where you just describe what you see. No fancy causal analyses or advanced statistical methods are needed here, just reporting means, medians, tables or the distribution of variables, so the reader can get an impression what the data is all about. Furthermore, descriptive parts are also extremely relevant for yourself as a good description always helps in understanding the phenomena you want to explore. In this chapter you will learn how to do this.
The Fre command
In the last chapter you have ...
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