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Introduction to STATA (introductory)

Dates:23 January 2017
Times:All day
What is it:Short course
Organiser:Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research
How much:£195 / £140 for those from educational and charitable institutions / The Cathie Marsh Institute (CMIST) offers five free places to research staff and students within the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester and the North West Doctoral Training Centre. Postgraduate students requesting a free place will be required to provide a letter of support from their supervisor.
Who is it for:University staff, 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.

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

Price: £195

Concessions: £140 for those from educational and charitable institutions

Offers: The Cathie Marsh Institute (CMIST) offers five free places to research staff and students within the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester and the North West Doctoral Training Centre. Postgraduate students requesting a free place will be required to provide a letter of support from their supervisor.

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