Using Stata Effectively: Data Management, Analysis, and Graphics Fundamentals

Analysis

Data Science

Theoretical and applied statistics

Short courses

On-site courses

Remote/Virtual

Face-to-face

English

Objectives

Become familiar with three main components of Stata: data management, data analysis, and data visualization.
Upon completion of the course, you will be able to use Stata efficiently for data management, basic analyses and graphics.
You will be able to create reproducible analysis, for better collaborative works and simplified follow-up analyses

Prerequisites:

Basic computer skills
The course is taught using Stata. It is appropriate for those who already own Stata and for those who are considering purchasing or upgrading. There is no requirement that the user already own a Stata license.

Educational and technical material and resources:

Web-based training courses are four-day courses that run for three and a half hour each day. You will be provided with a temporary Stata license to install on your computer, an electronic copy of the course notes, and all the course datasets so that you can easily follow along

Web-based training offers the same great content as our classroom training. It is designed to be interactive: ask the instructor questions and work examples using Stata. You can click a button to raise your hand and then speak directly with the instructor through your microphone. Or you type your questions and comments into a chat window

Monitoring and Assessment:

Practice and Exercises
Immediate training assessment

Expected results & skills at the end of the training :

The participant will learn the basic functions and navigation within STATA
The participant will learn how to create and manipulate graphs and figures in STATA
The participant will learn how to use STATA effectively for manipulating and analyzing data.
The participant will learn how to keep records of your work and create reproducible analyses.

Program

Fundamentals of Using Stata (1h30 – Day1)

Keeping organized
Knowing how Stata treats data
Using dialog boxes efficiently
Using the Command window
Saving time and effort while working
A sample Stata Session
Getting Help

Basic Data Management in Stata (3h30 – Day1 and Day2)

Reading Data in Stata
o Using and Saving Stata data files
o Reading in datasets of various standard formats, such as those from spreadsheets or databases
Labeling data, variables and values and setting up encoded variables
Creating and Recoding variables in an efficient fashion
Generating statistics within groups, and working across variables

Intermediate Data Management in Stata (2h – Day2)

Combining datasets by adding observations and by adding variables
Reshaping data from wide to long
Reshaping data from long to wide
Collapsing data across observations

Workflow (1h30 – Day3)

Using menus and the Command window to work quickly
Setting up Stata for your profile
Keeping complete records of what is done inside Stata: saving dofile
Creating reproducible analyses, which are completely documented
Finding, installing, and removing community-contributed extensions to Stata
Customizing how Stata starts up and where it looks for files

Analysis (3h30 – Day3 and Day 4)

Using basic statistical commands
Reusing results of Stata commands
Using common postestimation commands
Working with interactions and factor variables

Graphics (2h – Day 4)

Introduction to graphics
Overview of graph two-way plots
Building up complex graphs
Using the Graph Editor

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Duration

14 hours

Level

Beginner

Audience

This course is intended for both new Stata users and those who wish to learn techniques for effective daily use of Stata.

Participants

8 people maximum

Public attence: 999 EUR vat excl/participant.

On-site: please contact us for a personnalized offer.