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Re: st: Upcoming NetCourses
From
Michael McCulloch <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Upcoming NetCourses
Date
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:43:42 -0700
Definitely. Back when I was a beginning epidemiology student, I found
it quite a load to carry, learning both statistics and the software
operations at the same time. Doing some prep work with this Stata
course would be time well-spent.
Michael
On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:26 PM, David Cancel wrote:
Hello All,
I'm currently a student at UCSD, and will be taking econometrics using
stata in the next quarter. Will enrolling in introduction to stata
help
me? All advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
David
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: September 10–October 22, 2010
Deadline for enrollment: September 9, 2010
Cost: $95
Course Leaders: Kerry Kammire and Jennifer
Rolfes
Prerequisites: Stata 11 installed and
working.
Internet web browser
installed
and
working. (Course is platform
independent.)
Schedule:
Lecture 1 September 10
Lecture 2 September 17
One-week break September 23–29
Lecture 3 October 1
Lecture 4 October 8
Closing discussion
Course ends October 22
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
-------------------------------------------------
NetCourse 151. Introduction to Stata programming
-------------------------------------------------
Course length: 6 weeks (4 lectures)
Course dates: September 10–October 22, 2010
Deadline for enrollment: September 9, 2010
Cost: $125
Course Leaders: Kerry Kammire and Jennifer
Rolfes
Prerequisites: Stata 11 installed and
working.
Basic knowledge of using
Stata
interactively. Internet web
browser
installed and working.
(Course
is
platform independent.)
Schedule:
Lecture 1 September 10
Lecture 2 September 17
One-week break September 23–29
Lecture 3 October 1
Lecture 4 October 8
Closing discussion
Course ends October 22
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: October 8–November 26, 2010
Deadline for enrollment: October 7, 2010
Cost: $150
Course Leaders: Kerry Kammire and Jennifer
Rolfes
Prerequisites: Stata 11 installed and
working.
Internet web browser
installed
and
working. NetCourse 151 or
equivalent
knowledge. (Course is
platform
independent.)
Schedule:
Lecture 1 October 8
Lecture 2 October 15
Lecture 3 October 22
One-week break October 28–November 3
Lecture 4 November 5
Lecture 5 November 12
Closing discussion
Course ends November 26
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.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
NetCourse 461. Introduction to Univariate Time Series
Using
Stata
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Course length: 7 weeks (4 lectures plus
overview
of
multivariate methods)
Course dates: October 8–November 26, 2010
Deadline for enrollment: October 7, 2010
Cost: $295
Course Leaders: Gustavo Sanchez
Prerequisites: Stata 11 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 October 8
Lecture 2 October 15
Lecture 3 October 22
One-week break October 28–November 3
Lecture 4 November 5
Overview November 12
Closing discussion
Course ends November 26
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
----------------
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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Best wishes,
Michael McCulloch, LAc MPH PhD
Pine Street Foundation
124 Pine Street
San Anselmo, CA 94960-2674
tel: 415-407-1357
fax: 206-338-2391
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