2023 SER Annual Conference

2023 SER Annual Conference
Portland, OR | 13–16 June 2023

StataCorp will be an exhibitor at the SER 2023 Annual Conference. We are also hosting a workshop. Attending from StataCorp: Chuck Huber, Director of Statistical Outreach. For more information about the meeting, visit the SER 2023 Annual Conference page.

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Stata workshop

Title:	Create your own Stata commands
Presenter:	Chuck Huber, Director of Statistical Outreach
Date:	Monday, 2 April 2023 (virtual)
Time:	12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET (virtual)
Description:	The first half of this workshop will introduce the basics of creating custom Stata commands. You will learn how to store things in memory, where Stata stores things in memory and how to access them, how to handle conditions and branching, and how to use loops. We will then demonstrate how to use these tools with to write custom Stata commands using program, args, and syntax. You will learn how to write commands to perform simple calculations, post-estimation calculations, and create your own graphics commands. In the second half of this workshop, we will demonstrate how to create a basic estimation command for personal use. You will learn how create a command to convert Stata variables to matrices, use matrix calculations to fit models, display the results in standard Stata output. Then you will learn how to create commands that use ml to maximize likelihood functions. We will also demonstrate how to adapt your commands to handle survey weights. We will briefly demonstrate how to use Python within for your Stata commands.

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Chuck Huber

Chuck Huber is Director of Statistical Outreach at StataCorp and Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Texas A&M School of Public Health and at the New York University School of Global Public Health. In addition to working with Stata's team of software developers, he produces instructional videos for the Stata YouTube channel, writes blog entries, develops online NetCourses, and gives talks about Stata at conferences and universities. Most of his current work is focused on statistical methods used by behavioral and health scientists. He has published in the areas of neurology, human and animal genetics, alcohol and drug abuse prevention, nutrition, and birth defects. Dr. Huber currently teaches survey sampling at NYU and introductory biostatistics at Texas A&M, where he previously taught categorical data analysis, survey data analysis, and statistical genetics.