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From   Kerry Kammire <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Upcoming NetCourses
Date   Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:22:10 -0600

StataCorp will be offering sessions of NC-101, NC-151, NC-152, and NC-461
starting January 23rd.  The NetCourses are available on the Internet using a
web-based system to deliver lectures, problem sets, and solutions.  Course
participants and Stata course leaders interact through a bulletin board to
discuss the course and to ask and answer questions.

Here is a little more information about the upcoming NetCourses:

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	NetCourse 101.  	Introduction to Stata
	---------------------------------------------
	
	Course length: 			6 weeks (4 lectures)
	Course dates: 			January 23 through March 6
	Deadline for enrollment: 	January 22
	Cost:                           $95
	Course Leaders: 		Kevin Crow, Kerry Kammire,
					and Theresa Boswell

	Prerequisites: 			Stata 10 installed and working.
					Internet web browser installed and
					working.  (Course is platform
					independent.)
	Schedule: 	
	Lecture 1			January 23
	Lecture 2			January 30
	One-week break			February 5 through February 11
	Lecture 3			February 13
	Lecture 4			February 20
	Closing discussion	
	Course ends			March 6

	Content:
		o Getting started with Stata
		o Understanding the fundamentals of Stata syntax
		o Managing and organizing work and files
		o Searching for new commands, help, and other information
		o Installing new commands over the web
		o Managing data
		o Managing categorical variables
		o Handing groups with -by- processing
		o Reading various types of data into Stata
		o Match-merging and appending data


	-------------------------------------------------
	NetCourse 151. 	Introduction to Stata programming
	-------------------------------------------------

	Course length: 			6 weeks (4 lectures)
	Course dates: 			January 23 through March 6
	Deadline for enrollment: 	January 22
	Cost:                           $125
	Course Leaders: 		Kevin Crow, Kerry Kammire,
					and Theresa Boswell

	Prerequisites: 			Stata 10 installed and working.
					Basic knowledge of using Stata
					interactively.  Internet web browser
					installed and working.  (Course is
					platform independent.)
	Schedule: 	
	Lecture 1			January 23
	Lecture 2			January 30
	One-week break			February 5 through February 11
	Lecture 3			February 13
	Lecture 4			February 20
	Closing discussion	
	Course ends			March 6

	Content:
        	o  Organizing analyses
        	o  Handling complex datasets
        	o  Use of macros
        	o  Flow of control
        	o  Program arguments
        	o  Bootstrapping standard errors
        	o  Performing simulations
        	o  Parsing program arguments (including the -syntax- command)
        	o  ado-file programming


	------------------------------------------
	NetCourse 152. 	Advanced Stata programming
	------------------------------------------
	
	Course length: 			7 weeks (5 lectures)
	Course dates: 			January 23 through March 13
	Deadline for enrollment: 	January 22
	Cost:                           $150
	Course Leaders: 		Kevin Crow, Kerry Kammire,
					and Theresa Boswell

	Prerequisites: 			Stata 10 installed and working.
					Internet web browser installed and
					working. NetCourse 151 or equivalent
					knowledge. (Course is platform
					independent.)
	Schedule: 	
	Lecture 1			January 23
	Lecture 2			January 30
	Lecture 3			February 6
	One-week break			February 12 through February 18
	Lecture 4			February 20
	Lecture 5			February 27
	Closing discussion	
	Course ends			March 13

	Content:
		o The -syntax- command and how it makes parsing command syntax
		  and options almost as easy as writing a syntax diagram,
		o Estimates and return classes for saving and accessing
		  results,
		o Setting the estimation sample,
		o Advanced macro manipulation,
		o The full range of Stata programming concepts.


     -----------------------------------------------------------------------
     NetCourse 461.       Introduction to Univariate Time Series Using Stata
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------

     	Course length:       		7 weeks (4 lectures plus overview of
                                     	multivariate methods)
     	Course dates: 			January 23 through March 13
	Deadline for enrollment: 	January 22
     	Cost:                           $295
     	Course Leaders:      		Brian Poi and Gustavo Sanchez

     	Prerequisites:      		Stata 10 installed and working.
                         		Course content of NetCourse 101 or
                     		     	equivalent knowledge.  Familiarity
                          		with basic cross-sectional summary
					statistics and linear regression.
					Internet web browser, installed and
					working. (Course is platform
					independent.)
	Schedule: 	
	Lecture 1			January 23
	Lecture 2			January 30
	Lecture 3			February 6
	One-week break			February 12 through February 18
	Lecture 4			February 20
	Overview			February 27
	Closing discussion	
	Course ends			March 13

     Content:
             o Working with time-series data in Stata
             o Drawing graphs
             o Exponential smoothers and forecasting techniques
             o Time-series processes
             o Sample autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions
             o ARIMA and seasonal ARIMA models
             o Autocorrelation and regression analysis
             o Nonstationarity and unit-root tests
             o ARCH/GARCH models
             o Vector autoregressions (VARs) and vector error correction
               models (VECMs)


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More information
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You can find out more about Stata NetCourses by pointing your web browser to

     http://www.stata.com/info/products/netcourse/




-- Kerry Kammire, StataCorp
   [email protected]
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