Data Analysis with Stata (Beginners)

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Tobias Gramlich (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Date:
05.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.
06.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.
08.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 15

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

Language of instruction: English (German)

Contents:
Stata is a statistical program package widely used (not only) in the social and economical sciences; it is used for data management, statistical graphics and analysis of quantitative data. Statistical concepts will not be part of the course, so participants should have some very basic knowledge of statistics. The course should enable participants to prepare their data for analysis, perform adequate analysis using a statistical computer program and to document these tasks to keep them reproducible.

For Beginners with No or Very Little Knowledge of the Program

Course Topics cover:

  • “What You Type is What You Get”:
    Basic stata Command syntax
  • Getting (and Understanding) Help within stata
    stata Bulit-in Help System
  • Basic Data Management
    Load and Save stata Datasets
    Generate and Manipulate Variables
    Describe and Label Data and Variables
    Perform Basic uni- and bivariate Analyses
    Change the Structure of your Data
  • Basic stata Graphics
    Scatterplot, Histogram, Bar Chart
  • Working with “Do-” and “Log-” Files

You have to register for the 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.