Stata (Statistical Package): Basic Part 1

Prerequisites

Stata is a powerful general purpose statistical package. This course is for beginners and fairly new users of the package. Basic concepts and use of Stata will be introduced. The main aim of the course is to give participants a foundation and some background. However statistical techniques are not covered (see note below).

• Familiarity with Windows to the level covered by the Computing Service's introductory/Level 1 courses
• Familiarity with simple statistical concepts.

Number of sessions: 1

• Introduction to user interface - menus, data views, and output formats
• Finding your way around the help system
• Simple data entry
• Importing data from other applications
• Understanding dialog boxes and output
• Creating and changing variables
• Reorganizing and reshaping data

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals.

• No attempt is made to teach statistical techniques, though simple examples are used to show the principles of Stata use. There is a self-teach course "Statistics for the Terrified" which may be useful to people who lack the backbround.
• Practicals will be run on PCs using Stata for Windows.
• Part 2 (which must be separately registered for) deals mainly with importing data and with the very powerful facilities for managing and editing output from Stata.

One morning or afternoon session.

• Scientific Computing
• Statistical and Mathematical Software