Especially in the early stages of a research project it might be good to “time stamp” figure so that you can later figure out when you created a certain figure. Of course you could just check the date in the explorer / finder, but you can also simply add a note to the figure with time and date of its creation:
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Managing time variables in Stata and SPSS
I just came across the problem that a date in Stata is not the same as a date in SPSS. They are, however, based on the same principle: time variables, e.g. a variable containing days, contain the number of elapsed time units (days, weeks, months, seconds, or other date units) since a base date which is defined by the software.
In Stata, the base date is the first time unit in 1960 (e.g. January 1, 1960). For other time units, Continue reading “Managing time variables in Stata and SPSS”