st: Upcoming NetCourses

["Kevin Crow, StataCorp" <kcrow@stata.com>]

StataCorp will be offering sessions of NC-101, NC-151, NC-152, and NC-461
starting January 19th.  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 19 through March 2
	Deadline for enrollment: 	January 18 
	Cost: 	$95
	Course Leaders: 		Kevin Crow, Kerry Kammire, 
					and Derek Wagner 

	Prerequisites:			Stata 9 installed and working.
					Internet web browser installed and 
					working.  (Course is platform 
					independent.)
	Schedule: 	
	Lecture 1			January 19 
	Lecture 2			January 26 
	One-week break			February 1 through February 7 
	Lecture 3			February 9
	Lecture 4			February 16 
	Closing discussion	
	Course ends			March 2

	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 19 through March 2
	Deadline for enrollment: 	January 18 
	Cost: 	$125
	Course Leaders: 		Kevin Crow, Kerry Kammire, 
					and Derek Wagner

	Prerequisites: 			Stata 9 installed and working.
					Basic knowledge of using Stata
					interactively.  Internet web browser
					installed and working.  (Course is
					platform independent.)
	Schedule: 	
	Lecture 1			January 19 
	Lecture 2			January 26
	One-week break			February 1 through February 7 
	Lecture 3			February 9 
	Lecture 4			February 16
	Closing discussion	
	Course ends			March 2

	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 19 through March 9
	Deadline for enrollment: 	January 18
	Cost: 	$150
	Course Leaders: 		Kevin Crow, Kerry Kammire, 
					and Derek Wagner

	Prerequisites: 			Stata 9 installed and working.
					Internet web browser installed and
					working. NetCourse 151 or equivalent
					knowledge. (Course is platform
					independent.)
	Schedule: 	
	Lecture 1			January 19 
	Lecture 2			January 26
	Lecture 3			February 2
	One-week break			February 8 through February 14
	Lecture 4			February 16
	Lecture 5			February 23
	Closing discussion	
	Course ends			March 9

	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 19 through March 9
     	Cost:                		$295
     	Course Leaders:      		Brian Poi and Gustavo Sanchez

     	Prerequisites:      		Stata 9 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 19
	Lecture 2			January 26
	Lecture 3			February 8
	One-week break			February 8 through February 14
	Lecture 4			February 16
	Overview 			February 23
	Closing discussion     
	Course ends			March 9

     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
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You can find out more about Stata NetCourses by pointing your web browser to

     http://www.stata.com/info/products/netcourse/




-- Kevin Crow, StataCorp
   kcrow@stata.com
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