Introduction to STATA
Date:
08/11/2017
Organised by:
University of Manchester
Presenter:
Ingrid Storm
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
cmist-courses@manchester.ac.uk 0161 2751980
Map:
View in Google Maps (M13 9PL)
Venue:
Humanities Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester, Manchester
Description:
The course provides an introductory training in Stata, a statistical package increasingly used for social research data analysis which has powerful data manipulation procedures and extensive and powerful statistical capabilities.
The aim of the course is to familiarise participants with the basic features of Stata 14. On completing the course, participants will have covered the following through a combination of presentation and practical sessions:
· The STATA environment: Opening and exploring files, looking at labels, editing and entering data.
· Exploratory analysis: logging outputs, producing tables, subsetting and descriptive statistics.
· Data manipulation: computing new variables, recoding, keeping and dropping, saving commands in a .do file.
· STATA graphics, help and supporting resources.
On completion of the course, participants will have the necessary familiarity with Stata to move on to further Stata courses and/or continue learning themselves
Cost:
£195 (or £140 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions).
Website and registration:
https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/introductory/intro-to-stata/
Region:
North West
Keywords:
Data Quality and Data Management , Data Management , Data management plans, Quality in Quantitative Research, Data Quality and Data Management (other), Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Stata, Introduction to Stata , Data management , Quantitative software , Exploratory analysis , Data manipulation
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