URGENT help needed with university data analysis coursework

[Kosta Portic]

Here's the deal. I am an absolute noob when it comes to using Stata, having used it only once in my life. My coursework is due very soon and I really need help with the questions. It requires me to include each stata command that would be used to answer each question, and an explanation as to how I managed to answer the question.

I would be extremely grateful if anyone with even the slightest knowledge of using Stata could contribute to this post and help me out!

The questions are attached!

[Bruce Weaver]

The following is from the Extra Advice section of the FAQ, and should explain why you will not likely get many replies (despite the urgency of your situation).
4. Homework

Executive summary: Please do not post homework questions, and please ignore any that are posted.

By `homework' we mean here any coursework assignments for a formal course or module on which you are registered at a university or other institution and for which you will be graded.

There is a grey area here, and members may want to draw the line in slightly different places.

After all, most questions here concern research that will be written up in dissertations, theses, papers, books, or reports. But it is part of a widespread research culture that almost everybody consults others at some point and draws upon their general or specific advice, including -- in the case of Statalist -- Stata code (even new programs posted) and concrete suggestions about data management, data analysis, and graphics.

However, coursework that will be graded raises some very different issues. To start at the sharp end, many institutions have strict rules about plagiarism and collusion. So, consulting others and receiving help from others may place students in difficult situations, with very possible serious risk to their grades and their careers. It is thus not at all in students' best interests.

Most of all, homework is in essence set as fair challenges to students with the expectation that they can work their own way towards answers and will benefit from doing so. All of us have been students at some point, and many of us are academics with teaching roles. Long-term members here tend to agree strongly that the ethos of being helpful stops short of providing help on whatever is obviously homework. Institutions will have their own support rules and set-ups (faculty office hours, teaching assistants, whatever), but out-sourcing homework support to internet forums is not part of any policy we wish to support.

Any policy should be practical as well as founded on respected principles. Clearly, if someone asks a specific question arising from their homework, we often will not know how it arises, and the story ends there. But the main point here is to underline why many members will explicitly decline to support obvious homework and why requests for help on homework will often be ignored. No one can or will forbid anyone else from doing that, but we request that homework questions not be posted and not be answered.

[Marcos Almeida]

Bruce explained the concerns thoroughly.

But queries demanding somebody's homework to be done come now and then in the forum.

Just to underline a few aspects:

1) Stating it is urgent: please read the FAQ about this.

2) Asking for others to do one's homework: please read the FAQ about this.

3) Sharing specific files: please read the FAQ about this.


To end, think about that:

This may be taken as demanding forum members to stop what they are doing, or at least give top priority to a homework.

What is more, they should have a busy time clicking on the link, reading the homework instructions (6 pages) and providing answers to more than a dozen questions.

On top of that, they would need to have no qualms about doing a task that is supposed to evaluate the student's learning during the course.