| Venue: |
Cass Business School
Bunhill Row
London EC1Y 8TZ
UK |
| Dates: |
July 15–20, 2013 |
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Cost |
Stata Summer School in London
The Stata Summer School comprises a series of four one-day courses and one
two-day course running consecutively between July 15–20, 2013.
The courses will to be delivered by experienced leading econometricians: Tim
Collier and Tim Clayton of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine and Aurelio Tobías of the Spanish Scientific Research
Council.
This is a great opportunity for students, academics, and professionals to
expand their econometrics skills and learn how they can apply econometrics
from econometricians at the forefront of their specialist fields.
Available courses
Course 1: An Introduction to Stata 12
This one-day introductory course is for people interested in using Stata for
research. No prior knowledge of Stata is required.
Outline:
- Brief overview of Stata’s statistical, graphical, and
data management capabilities
- Introduction to the Stata working environment
- Using Stata via the Graphical User Interface and the Command
window
- Understanding Stata’s command syntax
- Helping you help yourself—introducing Stata’s online
help facilities
- Working efficiently with do-files
- Saving results output in a log file
Course 2: An Introduction to Stata Graphics
This one-day introductory course is intended for people who would like
to produce publication-quality graphs using Stata. Some experience
with Stata and some level of statistical knowledge would be helpful, though
not essential.
Outline:
- Introduction to Stata graphics
- Resources for learning Stata graphics
- Producing graphs using the Graphical User Interface
- Producing graphs using the command syntax in do-files
- Editing graphs using Stata’s Graph Editor
- Combining graphs
- Graph schemes
Course 3: Advanced Data Management in Stata 12
This one-day introductory course is intended for people who are reasonably
familiar with Stata (for example, those who have attended the one-day
introduction to Stata course) but who would like to develop their
data management skills and work more efficiently.
Outline:
- Introduction to course and brief review of Stata basics
- Introduction to how Stata is organized
- Loading data into Stata from non-Stata formats
- Useful functions for creating summary variables
- Dealing with string variables and dates in Stata
- Changing the shape of your data
- Creating summary datasets
- Using Stata’s system variables for data management tasks
- Some simple programming tools for saving time
Course 4: Introduction to Stata for Medical Statistics
This two-day introductory statistics course is intended for people who are
reasonably familiar with Stata (for example, those who have attended the
one-day introduction to Stata course) but who would like to develop their
statistical analysis skills.
Outline:
- Introduction to course and data
- Principles of statistical analysis
- For each of continuous, binary, and time-to-event outcomes:
- Fitting models in Stata and understanding the output
- Including categorical explanatory variables
- Fitting multiple explanatory variables
- Fitting interactions
- Comparing models and model selection
- Obtaining model predictions
- Reporting results
- For time-to-event outcomes:
- Setting up survival data in Stata
Course 5: Introduction to Meta-analysis
This one-day course led by Aurelio Tobías is aimed at both academics
and practitioners who have a basic knowledge of Stata and are interested in
applying meta-analysis using Stata commands designed for this purpose.
Outline:
- Basic Stata commands for meta-analysis
- Effect sizes based on binary and continuous data
- Fixed- vs. random-effects models for meta-analysis: Testing for heterogeneity
- Subgroup analysis and meta-regression
- Multivariate meta-analysis
For more information or to register, visit
Timberlake’s website.
Timberlake Consultants is the official Stata distributor to the UK,
Ireland, the Middle East, Spain, Portugal, Poland, and Brazil.
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