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From | Kerry Kammire <kkammire@stata.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: Upcoming NetCourses |
Date | Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:28:56 -0600 |
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: January 21–March 4, 2011 Deadline for enrollment: January 20, 2011 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 January 21 Lecture 2 January 28 One-week break February 3–February 9 Lecture 3 February 11 Lecture 4 February 18 Closing discussion Course ends March 4 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: January 21–March 4, 2011 Deadline for enrollment: January 20, 2011 Cost: $125Course 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 January 21 Lecture 2 January 28 One-week break February 3–February 9 Lecture 3 February 11 Lecture 4 February 18 Closing discussion Course ends March 4 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: January 21–March 4, 2011 Deadline for enrollment: January 20, 2011 Cost: $150Course 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 January 21 Lecture 2 January 28 Lecture 3 February 4 One-week break February 10–February 16 Lecture 4 February 18 Lecture 5 February 25 Closing discussion Course ends March 11 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: January 21–March 4, 2011 Deadline for enrollment: January 20, 2011 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 January 21 Lecture 2 January 28 Lecture 3 February 4 One-week break February 10–February 16 Lecture 4 February 18 Overview February 25 Closing discussion Course ends March 11 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 kkammire@stata.com * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/