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Re: st: Upcoming NetCourses
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"Shittu, Aminu" <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Upcoming NetCourses
Date
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:13:31 -0800 (PST)
Hi Kerry,
Thanks for sharing the announcement! Must I have Stata v.12 to be able to participate in these courses? I am using v.10, please.
Aminu.
Aminu Shittu, DVM (Sokoto), PgCert-IAH (Edinburgh), MSc-CIDA (London),
PhD Student,
Liverpool University Climate and Infectious Diseases of Animals (LUCINDA) Research Group,
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health,
Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool,
Leahurst Campus, Chester High Road, Neston, Cheshire CH64 7TE,
UNITED KINGDOM.
Mobile: +44(0)7990 689 961
http://www.liv.ac.uk/lucinda
________________________________
From: Kerry Kammire <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:12:15 PM
Subject: st: Upcoming NetCourses
StataCorp will be offering sessions of NC-101, NC-151, NC-152, and NC-461.
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
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Course length: 6 weeks (4 lectures)
Course dates: January 20–March 2, 2012
Deadline for enrollment: January 19, 2012
Cost: $95
Course Leaders: Kerry Kammire and Jared Stewart
Prerequisites: Stata 12 installed and working.
Internet web browser, installed and
working. (Course is platform
independent.)
Schedule:
Lecture 1 January 20
Lecture 2 January 27
One-week break February 2–February 8
Lecture 3 February 10
Lecture 4 February 17
Closing discussion
Course ends March 2
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
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NetCourse 151. Introduction to Stata programming
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Course length: 6 weeks (4 lectures)
Course dates: January 20–March 2, 2012
Deadline for enrollment: January 19, 2012
Cost: $125
Course Leaders: Kerry Kammire and Jared Stewart
Prerequisites: Stata 12 installed and working.
Basic knowledge of using Stata
interactively. Internet web browser,
installed and working. (Course is
platform independent.)
Schedule:
Lecture 1 January 20
Lecture 2 January 27
One-week break February 2–February 8
Lecture 3 February 10
Lecture 4 February 17
Closing discussion
Course ends March 2
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
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NetCourse 152. Advanced Stata programming
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Course length: 7 weeks (5 lectures)
Course dates: January 20–March 9, 2012
Deadline for enrollment: January 19, 2012
Cost: $150
Course Leaders: Kerry Kammire and Jared Stewart
Prerequisites: Stata 11 or 12 installed and working.
Internet web browser, installed and
working. NetCourse 151 or equivalent
knowledge. (Course is platform
independent.)
Schedule:
Lecture 1 January 20
Lecture 2 January 27
Lecture 3 February 3
One-week break February 9–February 15
Lecture 4 February 17
Lecture 5 February 24
Closing discussion
Course ends March 9
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.
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NetCourse 461. Introduction to Univariate Time Series Using Stata
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Course length: 7 weeks (4 lectures plus overview of
multivariate methods)
Course dates: January 20–March 9, 2012
Deadline for enrollment: January 19, 2012
Cost: $295
Course Leaders: Kristin MacDonald and Gustavo Sánchez
Prerequisites: Stata 11 or 12 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 20
Lecture 2 January 27
Lecture 3 February 3
One-week break February 9–February 15
Lecture 4 February 17
Overview February 24
Closing discussion
Course ends March 9
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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