10 Reporting results

After you have finished the difficult part, and produced and tested your results, it is time to publish them. Usually this works fairly well, yet some things should be considered in order to reach a professional appearance. It is never a good idea to copy and past Stata output directly into a paper, as it will probably lower your grade. The first problem is that Stata produces a great amount of information that is often not needed in publications, as tables are already large enough and researchers don’t have time to deal with every bit of information. The second aspect is that the Stata format is usually not what editors or professors expect when they think of a nice layout. It is always a good idea to study the most important ...

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