Stata 12 for Beginners
An ISSR Short Course by Jessica Looze
Date: Friday, February 22, 2013
Time: 11:00-1:00 pm
Location: ISSR Training Lab W37E Machmer Hall (3rd Floor, West Wing)
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Description:
This is an introductory workshop that aims to familiarize participants with the Stata
12 interface and some basic Stata commands. It is targeted to university students and
researchers who have little or no prior experience with STATA but are interesting in
learning the software to use for data analysis, data management, and graphical data
visualization. Participants who already have Stata installed in their computers are
encouraged to bring them to use during the workshop, however a limited number of ISSR
laptops will be available for use during the session.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
•import data into STATA;
•combine datasets;
•manage missing values;
•label their data;
•create new variabless;
•compute basic statistics;
•Understand the comparative components of each service