Econometrics skill for descriptive statistics and summary tables.

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Install Stats

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill stats -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills stats --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/stats .claude/skills/stats && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
stats
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
337 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
364
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Econometrics skill for descriptive statistics and summary tables.

  • Works in 5 steps: Table 1: N, Mean, SD (and optionally… → Panel structure: If panel data, report N… → Balance table: If treatment/control… → …
  • Asks about: descriptive statistics
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, Summary Statistics Table…, Balance Tables (Treatment vs… and Correlation Matrix, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Stats is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Econometrics skill for descriptive statistics and summary tables. Activates when the user asks about: "descriptive statistics", "summary statistics", "summary table", "Table 1", "balance table", "means and standard deviations", "correlation matrix", "data summary", "sample characteristics", "variable distributions", "描述性统计", "描述统计", "汇总统计", "统计表", "均值标准差", "平衡性检验", "相关矩阵", "样本特征", "变量分布"

Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Data analysis, Statistics and Econometrics and empirical research. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • Asks about: descriptive statistics
  • Summary statistics
  • Means and standard deviations
  • Correlation matrix

Example prompts

  • “descriptive statistics”
  • “summary statistics”
  • “summary table”
  • “/stats”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Table 1: N, Mean, SD (and optionally Min, Max, Median) for all variables used in analysis
  2. Panel structure: If panel data, report N units, T periods, and total N×T
  3. Balance table: If treatment/control design, show balance with t-tests or normalized differences
  4. Sample construction: Note any sample restrictions (e.g., "dropped observations with missing income")
  5. Winsorization: If applied, note percentiles (e.g., "winsorized at 1st and 99th percentiles")

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python, r and stata).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Stats loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 337 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 337 words (~1,983 tokens).

“This skill generates publication-quality summary statistics tables, balance tables, and correlation matrices — the essential "Table 1" found in every empirical economics paper.”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
stats

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/stats of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Stats

What does Stats do?

Econometrics skill for descriptive statistics and summary tables. Stats is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Econometrics skill for descriptive statistics and summary tables.

When should I use Stats?

Stats fits situations like: asks about: descriptive statistics; summary statistics; means and standard deviations; correlation matrix.

How do I install Stats in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill stats -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/stats in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/stats in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Stats in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill stats -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/stats in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/stats in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Stats in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill stats -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/stats, .gemini/skills/stats, .github/skills/stats and .opencode/skills/stats in your project.

What does Stats need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Stats is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Stats access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Stats safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Stats use?

Stats has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Stats use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Stats?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Stats: Statistical Data Analysis (lingzhi227/agent-research-skills, 384 stars), Q-EDA Exploratory Analysis (TyrealQ/q-skills, 108 stars), PyMC Bayesian Modeling (davila7/claude-code-templates, 32k stars) and Framing Research Questions (K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers, 348 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Stats?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,529 GitHub stars. The repository holds 364 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.