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From   Kerry Kammire <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Upcoming NetCourses
Date   Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:19:02 -0600

StataCorp will be offering sessions of NC-101, NC-151, NC-152, NC-461 and
the new NC-631. 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 17–February 28, 2014
        Deadline for enrollment:        January 16, 2014
        Cost:                           $95
        Course Leaders:                 Kerry Kammire and Derek Wagner

        Prerequisites:                  Stata 13 installed and working.
                                        Internet web browser, installed and
                                        working.  (Course is platform
                                        independent.)
        Schedule:
        Lecture 1                       January 17
        Lecture 2                       January 24
        One-week break                  January 30–February 5
        Lecture 3                       February 7
        Lecture 4                       February 14
        Closing discussion
        Course ends                     February 28

        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
        --------------------------------------------------------

        Course length:                  6 weeks (4 lectures)
        Course dates:                   January 17–February 28, 2014
        Deadline for enrollment:        January 16, 2014
        Cost:                           $125
        Course Leaders:                 Kerry Kammire and Derek Wagner

        Prerequisites:                  Stata 13 installed and working.
                                        Basic knowledge of using Stata
                                        interactively.  Internet web browser,
                                        installed and working.  (Course is
                                        platform independent.)
        Schedule:
        Lecture 1                       January 17
        Lecture 2                       January 24
        One-week break                  January 30–February 5
        Lecture 3                       February 7
        Lecture 4                       February 14
        Closing discussion
        Course ends                     February 28

        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
        -------------------------------------------------

        Course length:                  7 weeks (5 lectures)
        Course dates:                   January 17–March 7, 2014
        Deadline for enrollment:        January 16, 2014
        Cost:                           $150
        Course Leaders:                 Kerry Kammire and Derek Wagner

        Prerequisites:                  Stata 13 installed and working.
                                        Internet web browser, installed and
                                        working. NetCourse 151 or equivalent
                                        knowledge. (Course is platform
                                        independent.)
        Schedule:
        Lecture 1                       January 17
        Lecture 2                       January 24
        Lecture 3                       January 31
        One-week break                  February 6–February 12
        Lecture 4                       February 14
        Lecture 5                       February 21
        Closing discussion
        Course ends                     March 7

        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
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------

        Course length:                  7 weeks (4 lectures plus overview of
                                        multivariate methods)
        Course dates:                   January 17–March 7, 2014
        Deadline for enrollment:        January 16, 2014
        Cost:                           $295
        Course Leaders:                 Miguel Dorta and Gustavo Sánchez

        Prerequisites:                  Stata 13 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 17
        Lecture 2                       January 24
        Lecture 3                       January 31
        One-week break                  February 6–February 12
        Lecture 4                       February 14
        Overview                        February 21
        Closing discussion
        Course ends                     March 7

        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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     NetCourse 631             Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

        Course length:                  5 weeks (4 lectures)
        Dates:                          January 17–February 28, 2014
        Enrollment deadline:            January 16, 2014
        Price:                          $295.00
        Course leader:                  Isabel Cañette, Chuck Huber, and
                                        Jieyu Wang

        Prerequisites:                  Stata 13, installed and working.
                                        Course content of NetCourse 101 or
                                        equivalent knowledge. No prior knowledge
                                        of survival analysis is necessary.
                                        Internet web browser, installed and
                                        working. (Course is platform
                                        independent.)
        Schedule:
        Lecture 1                       January 17
        Lecture 2                       January 24
        One-week break                  January 30–February 5
        Lecture 3                       February 7
        Lecture 4                       February 14
        Closing discussion
        Course ends                     February 28

        Content:
             o Censoring
             o Truncation
             o Hazard rates
             o Survival functions
             o Analysis of survival data
             o Descriptive statistics
             o Life tables
             o Kaplan–Meier curves
             o Semiparametric (Cox) regression
             o Parametric regression


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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/netcourse/




-- Kerry Kammire, StataCorp
   [email protected]
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