| Venue: | Cass Business School Bunhill Row London EC1Y 8TZ UK |
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| Dates: | July 2–6, 2012 |
Stata Summer School in London
Timberlake Consultants invites you to attend their first Stata Summer School, which will take place at Cass Business School in London, July 2–6, 2012.
Available courses
An Introduction to Stata 12 — July 2, 2012
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
An Introduction to Stata Graphics — July 3, 2012
This one-day introductory course is intended for people who would like to be able to produce publication-quality graphs using Stata. Some experience of using 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
Advanced Data Management in Stata 12 — July 4, 2012
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
Introduction to Stata for Medical Statistics — July 5–6, 2012
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
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.
