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Re: st: Upcoming NetCourses
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"David Cancel" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Upcoming NetCourses
Date
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:26:42 -0700 (PDT)
Hello All,
I'm currently a student at UCSD, and will be taking econometrics using
stata in the next quarter. Will enrolling in introduction to stata help
me? All advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
David
> StataCorp will be offering sessions of NC-101, NC-151, NC-152, and NC-461.
> 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:
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> NetCourse 101. Introduction to Stata
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Course length: 6 weeks (4 lectures)
> Course dates: September 10?October 22, 2010
> Deadline for enrollment: September 9, 2010
> Cost: $95
> Course Leaders: Kerry Kammire and Jennifer Rolfes
>
> Prerequisites: Stata 11 installed and working.
> Internet web browser installed
> and
> working. (Course is platform
> independent.)
> Schedule:
> Lecture 1 September 10
> Lecture 2 September 17
> One-week break September 23?29
> Lecture 3 October 1
> Lecture 4 October 8
> Closing discussion
> Course ends October 22
>
> 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
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> NetCourse 151. Introduction to Stata programming
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Course length: 6 weeks (4 lectures)
> Course dates: September 10?October 22, 2010
> Deadline for enrollment: September 9, 2010
> Cost: $125
> Course Leaders: Kerry Kammire and Jennifer Rolfes
>
>
> Prerequisites: Stata 11 installed and working.
> Basic knowledge of using Stata
> interactively. Internet web
> browser
> installed and working. (Course
> is
> platform independent.)
> Schedule:
> Lecture 1 September 10
> Lecture 2 September 17
> One-week break September 23?29
> Lecture 3 October 1
> Lecture 4 October 8
> Closing discussion
> Course ends October 22
>
> 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
>
>
> ------------------------------------------
> NetCourse 152. Advanced Stata programming
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Course length: 7 weeks (5 lectures)
> Course dates: October 8?November 26, 2010
> Deadline for enrollment: October 7, 2010
> Cost: $150
> Course Leaders: Kerry Kammire and Jennifer Rolfes
>
>
> Prerequisites: Stata 11 installed and working.
> Internet web browser installed
> and
> working. NetCourse 151 or
> equivalent
> knowledge. (Course is platform
> independent.)
> Schedule:
> Lecture 1 October 8
> Lecture 2 October 15
> Lecture 3 October 22
> One-week break October 28?November 3
> Lecture 4 November 5
> Lecture 5 November 12
> Closing discussion
> Course ends November 26
>
> 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.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> NetCourse 461. Introduction to Univariate Time Series Using
> Stata
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Course length: 7 weeks (4 lectures plus overview
> of
> multivariate methods)
> Course dates: October 8?November 26, 2010
> Deadline for enrollment: October 7, 2010
> Cost: $295
> Course Leaders: Gustavo Sanchez
>
> Prerequisites: Stata 11 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 October 8
> Lecture 2 October 15
> Lecture 3 October 22
> One-week break October 28?November 3
> Lecture 4 November 5
> Overview November 12
> Closing discussion
> Course ends November 26
>
> 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)
>
>
> ----------------
> More information
> ----------------
>
> You can find out more about Stata NetCourses by pointing your web browser
> to
>
> http://www.stata.com/info/products/netcourse/
>
>
>
>
> -- Kerry Kammire, StataCorp
> [email protected]
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