Monthly Archives: July 2018

Stata command to convert string GVKEY to numerical GVKEY or vice versa

The default type of GVEKY in Compustat is string. Sometimes, we need it to be a numerical type in Stata (e.g., when we want to use the super handy command tsset). The command to convert string GVKEY to numerical GVEKY … Continue reading

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Stata command to calculate the area under ROC curve

If we want to evaluate the predictive ability of a logit or probit model, Kim and Skinner (2012, JAE, Measuring securities litigation risk) suggest that A better way of comparing the predictive ability of different models is to use the Receiver … Continue reading

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Stata commands to calculate skewness

Suppose we are going to calculate the skewness of 12 monthly returns. The 12 returns may be stored in a row (Figure 1) or in a column (Figure 2). This post discusses how to calculate the skewness in these two … Continue reading

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Lawsuit data from Stanford Law School’s Securities Class Action Clearinghouse

The Python script in the original post has been removed as its use violates the Terms of Service of the data provider. Stanford Law School’s Securities Class Action Clearinghouse is always happy to share the data (subject to a Non-Disclosure … Continue reading

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