CMIST Short Course :: Introductory :: Introduction to STATA
| Dates: | 21 January 2015 |
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| Times: | 10:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Short course |
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| Organiser: | Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research |
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| How much: | £195, £140 (Price varies on specific criteria. Contact Short Courses Administrator for more information.) |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, General public |
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Outline
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: £195, £140 (Price varies on specific criteria. Contact Short Courses Administrator for more information.)
Travel and Contact Information
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Basement Lab
Humanities Bridgeford Street
Manchester
