Introduction to STATA short course
| Dates: | 25 January 2016 |
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| Times: | All day |
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| What is it: | Course |
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| Organiser: | Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research |
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| How much: | £140 (public sector) £195 (private sector) |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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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.
Objectives
The aim of the course is to familiarise participants with the basic features of STATA 9.0. 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.
Price: £140 (public sector) £195 (private sector)
Travel and Contact Information
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Basement computer lab
Humanities Bridgeford Street
Manchester
