Advanced Stata: Programming and other techniques to make your life easier

Course description

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is teaching a one-week course on advanced Stata use from the 7th to the 11th of September. The course will be held in London and is aimed at competent Stata users who want to work faster and more efficiently in Stata. It will cover data handling and manipulation, accessing and outputting results, and programming Stata. The course fee is £900. More details are available at http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/short/sasta1.htm, and the course contents are summarized below.

If you are interested and would like to know more about the course content and level, then please visit http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/short/sasta1.htm or contact Emma Slaymaker (stata_short_course@lshtm.ac.uk).

By the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:

• Generate variables that contain summaries of the data
• Create a summary dataset using collapse
• Navigate a dataset using _n, _N, and subscripted variables
• Rearrange a dataset using reshape
• Combine multiple datasets using merge and append
• Identify duplicate observations
• Export data to a spreadsheet
• Create tailor-made publication quality graphs
• Understand what macros and scalars are
• Be able to use foreach and forvalues loops
• Understand and use if statements
• Understand how Stata stores estimation results
• Be able to access and use stored estimation results
• Know how to export results using user-written commands: estout, outreg, tabout
• Understand how Stata programs work
• Be able to write and use a simple Stata program
• Be able to write a do-file which exports results using file write