South 720 17. South 460 18. East 520 19. West 400 20. The two variables, region and score , are both string variables.
Region is categorical while score is continuous.
Let's begn with the categorical variable. Obs Mean Std. The Stata command encode converts string catetorical variables to numeric categorical variables. It also creates value labels for the new numeric variable with the string values as the value labels. Obs Mean Std.