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Illustrate some of the new possibilities deriving from the compatibility of Stata 12 with MS Excel  \n2. Make the case that Stata is actually also quite useful for practitioners  \n3. Advance the idea that the use of Stata outside of academia can promote scientific standards (e.g. reproducibility) not impede them  \nUniversity of Osnabrück – Sven-Oliver Spieß -5-  \n02 The problem: How to get from data to reports?  \n■ Getting information frequently tit for tat: data for results  \n■ Examples:  \n􀂃 Student performance in schools  \n􀂃 Job satisfaction among employees  \nUniversity of Osnabrück – Sven-Oliver Spieß -6-  \n1. Create Excel report template  \n2. Import raw data  \n3. Clean data and compute statistics  \n4. 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