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DTSTAMP:20150109T101604Z
DTSTART:20150121T100000Z
DTEND:20150121T170000Z
SUMMARY:CMIST Short Course :: Introductory :: Introduction to STATA
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DESCRIPTION:Outline\nThe course provides an introductory training in STAT
 A\, a statistical package increasingly used for social research data ana
 lysis which has powerful data manipulation procedures and extensive and 
 powerful statistical capabilities.\n\nObjectives\n- The aim of the cours
 e is to familiarise participants with the basic features of STATA 9.0. O
 n completing the course\, participants will have covered the following t
 hrough a combination of presentation and practical sessions\;\n- The STA
 TA environment: Opening and exploring files\, looking at labels\, editin
 g and entering data.\n- Exploratory analysis: logging outputs\, producin
 g tables\, subsetting and descriptive statistics.\n- Data manipulation: 
 computing new variables\, recoding\, keeping and dropping\, saving comma
 nds in a .do file.\n- STATA graphics\, help and supporting resources.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Basement Lab\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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