Introducing Stata

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The Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX, U.K.

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Course Description
Course Programme
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About Stata

Timberlake Consultants Ltd, the UK distributor of Stata, invite you to attend a two-day course in Central London, covering the use of Stata, the well known statistics and econometrics software package developed by Stata Corporation (USA).

The Course - Starting to use Stata is relatively simple, but because of its size, and the wealth of information in the guide and manuals, the question of what comes next can be quite daunting. This course provides a short introduction to Stata which will help the participants to find their way through Stata.

This is one of a set of three courses:

Who should attend - The course, given in English, is aimed at Stata users or prospective users

The Principal Lecturers - The course has been developed and is taught by three principal lecturers:

Michael Hills - Michael is one of the first users of Stata in the UK while working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Although Michael is now retired, he continues active doing training (in many countries) in the use of Stata and developing Stata programmes, many of which have been integrated in Stata.
Bianca De Stavola - Bianca is Italian and graduated in Statistical Sciences at the University of Padua. She then obtained an MSc in Statistics at the London School of Economics and a PhD in Statistics at Imperial College, London. She joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1994. Her main areas of research are: Cancer, Cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, Statistical methods, Life-course epidemiology.
Tim Collier - Tim is a Research Fellow in Medical Statistics, working in the Medical Statistics Unit at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He graduated in Mathematics and Environmental Management in 2000 and obtained an MSc in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2001. His main area of research interest is in coronary heart disease and in particular the association between physical exercise, obesity and the metabolic syndrome.

Michael Hills and Bianca De Stavola are the authors of the book "A short introduction to Stata for Biostatistics"

Cost - The cost of the course is:

Commercial/Governement
 1st Participant £900+VAT=£1,057.50
2nd+ Participants £810+VAT= £951.75
Academic 1st Participant £600+VAT= £705.00
2nd+ Participants £540+VAT= £634.50
Student £300+VAT= £352.50

Note: a 15% discount is provided for those registering at the same time for more than one course.

The cost includes course materials, luncheon and refreshments and the use of computers. The number of delegates is restricted. Please register early to guarantee your place. Further instructions will be sent with the joining instructions. If you need assistance in locating hotel accommodation in the area, request the help of our Training Department.

Agenda

1.Basic commands

A first look at the data; tables of means and other things; restricting the scope of commands; generating new variables; ordering dropping and keeping; sorting data; using Stata as a calculator; shortcuts; Stata syntax; using the Stata help facilities.

2.Housekeeping

Labelling a dataset; labelling variables and their values; recoding a variable; missing values; dates; saving files; using log files; using do files.

3.Data input and output

Data sources; data from a spreadsheet; data from a wordprocessor; large datasets; more about dictionary files; loading data from the keyboard; data output.

4.Graphical displays

Histograms; box plots and cumulative distributions; scatter plots and symbols; adding lines to graphs; adding titles and other labels; saving, combining, and printing plots.

5.More basic tools

The return list; generating variables using functions; grouping the values of a variable; comparing two means or two proportions; weights; repeating commands for different sub-groups; repeating commands for different variables.

6.Data management

Cleaning data; string variables; appending to add more subjects; merging to add more variables; merging to update variables; unmatched merges.

7.How Stata is organized

Paths and programs; updating Stata; the Stata Journal; user-contributed programs; the Statalist.

Terms and Conditions

Registration closes 5 calendar days prior to the start of the course.

Cancellations:

  • full fee returned for cancellations made over 28 calendar days prior to start of the course
  • half-fee returned for cancellations made 14 calendar days prior to he start of the course
  • no fee returned for cancellations made less than 14 calendar days prior to the start of the course.

    Payment of course fees required prior to the course start date