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All About Serge!
100

When tabulating a variable, you can add this option at the end of your code to count “missing” observations.

What is ", m"?

Ex: tab Year, m

100

Donuts are brought in on this day for DC staffers to enjoy.

What is Wednesday?

100

The method many economists use to estimate the relationship between an explanatory and response variable.

What is regression?

100

This river derives its name from Native American settlement Nacotchtank. It is also the name of one of our meeting rooms.

What is Anacostia?

100

Serge taught at this university prior to coming to CRA.

What is Georgetown University?

200

To toggle a variable between string and number use these two commands.

What are tostring and destring?

200

This meeting room is the largest one in the office.

What is Potomac?

200

Rule used to update one’s prior beliefs after receiving new information.

What is the Bayes’ rule?

200

Martin Luther King Jr. made his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at this historical site.

What is the Lincoln Memorial?

200

He and Keler Marku share this hobby.

What is soccer?

300

This stata color scheme turns the font color white and the background black. It is also Rebecca's preferred setting.

What is stata "Dark Mode"?

300

This DC senior is a wine connoisseur and often chooses the wine offered in client events.

Who is Greg Vistnes?

300

This theorem establishes that, the mean of sufficiently large random samples tend towards normal distribution regardless of source population distribution.

What is the Central Limit Theorem?

300

Washington DC was founded in this year after both Virginia and Maryland ceded land.

What is 1790?

300

He and Greg Vistnes shares an appreciation for this.

What is wine?

400

This command allows the user to identify whether specified variables uniquely identify the observations. 

What is isid?

400

CRA advised the merger of these two airlines in 2016.

What are Virgin America and Alaska Airlines?

400

This number is the average of the following set of numbers:

     367, 600, 710, 955

It is also the number of windows in the US Capitol. 

What is 658?

400

This Irish-born architect designed the White House.

Who is James Hoban?

400

Did manual labor at high altitude fixing these after high school.

What are roofs?