NetCourseNow 101: Introduction to Stata

$195.00Self-paced

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Learn how to use all of Stata's tools and become a sophisticated Stata user. You will understand the Stata environment, how to import and export data from different formats, how Stata's intuitive syntax works, data management in Stata, matching and merging, how to analyze subgroups of data, how to reproduce your work and documented it publication and review, how to interact with the Stata community online, and more.

Videos, lessons, examples, and exercises combine to develop your Stata skills.

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Discounts available for enrollments of two or more participants.

Prerequisites

Stata 19 or Stata 18, installed and working
Knowledge of your computer
Internet web browser, installed and working
(Course is platform independent.)

Course content

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Lesson 1: Introduction to the Stata Interface

Sample session
Main Stata window
- Menus and dialogs
- Command and Results windows
- Review window
- Variables window
Data Editor
- Renaming and formatting variables
- Hide, show, and order your data
Viewer
- Installing user-written commands
Do-file Editor
Graph window and Editor

Lesson 2: Working with data

Current working directory
Loading and saving data
Working with data
- Stata’s command syntax
- The data in memory
- Value labels
- Formats
- Notes
- Other kinds of labels
Keeping logs
Safe computing
Basic data reporting
Data management
Making strings into numerical categorical variables
- Doing things the long way
- The second solution
- The best solution
Observation subscripts _n and _N
Memory management

Lesson 3: Importing data into Stata

Obtaining data
Import and export Excel data
- import excel
- export excel
Import and export text data
- import delimited
- export delimited
Other commands to import and export data
- Import and export data from and to a database (ODBC)
- Undelimited text data
- Import and export SAS XPORT files
- Import Haver databases
- Import Federal Reserve Economic Data
- Translate shapefiles
Reading dates and times

Lesson 4: Merge and append multiple datasets

Appending data
Merging data
- Notes about merge
- Merge with repeated variables
An example of append and merge
Wide versus long data
How to think about variables and their contents

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