Hi Kevin,
Is the price of the NCNow151 Course (Introduction to Stata Programming)$275 CAD or is it $275 US?
Thanks,
Sally
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Crow, StataCorp
Sent: 2007-07-24 5:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Upcoming NetCourses
StataCorp will be offering sessions of NC-101 and NC-151 starting September 7.
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: September 7 through October 19
Cost: $95
Course Leaders: Kevin Crow, Kerry Kammire, and Theresa Boswell
Prerequisites: Stata 9/10 installed and working.
Internet web browser installed and
working. (Course is platform
independent.)
Schedule:
Lecture 1 September 7
Lecture 2 September 14
One-week break September 20 through September 26
Lecture 3 September 28
Lecture 4 October 5
Closing discussion
Course ends October 19
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: September 7 through October 19
Cost: $125
Course Leaders: Kevin Crow, Kerry Kammire, and Theresa Boswell
Prerequisites: Stata 9/10 installed and working.
Basic knowledge of using Stata
interactively. Internet web browser
installed and working. (Course is
platform independent.)
Schedule:
Lecture 1 September 7
Lecture 2 September 14
One-week break September 20 through September 26
Lecture 3 September 28
Lecture 4 October 5
Closing discussion
Course ends October 19
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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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/
-- Kevin Crow, StataCorp
[email protected]
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