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st: Upcoming NetCourses
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Kerry Kammire <[email protected]>
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st: Upcoming NetCourses
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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