st: Upcoming NetCourses

[Kerry Kammire <kkammire@stata.com>]

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:

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        NetCourse 101.          Introduction to Stata
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        Course length:                  6 weeks (4 lectures)
        Course dates:                   September 9–October 21, 2011
        Deadline for enrollment:        September 8, 2011
        Cost:                           $95
        Course Leaders:                 Kerry Kammire and Jennifer Rolfes

        Prerequisites:                  Stata 11 or 12 installed and working.
                                        Internet web browser, installed and
                                        working.  (Course is platform
                                        independent.)
        Schedule:
        Lecture 1                       September 9
        Lecture 2                       September 16
        One-week break                  September 22–September 28
        Lecture 3                       September 30
        Lecture 4                       October 7
        Closing discussion
        Course ends                     October 21

        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:                   September 9–October 21, 2011
        Deadline for enrollment:        September 8, 2011
        Cost:                           $125
        Course Leaders:                 Kerry Kammire and Jennifer Rolfes


        Prerequisites:                  Stata 11 or 12 installed and working.
                                        Basic knowledge of using Stata
                                        interactively.  Internet web browser,
                                        installed and working.  (Course is
                                        platform independent.)
        Schedule:
        Lecture 1                       September 9
        Lecture 2                       September 16
        One-week break                  September 22–September 28
        Lecture 3                       September 30
        Lecture 4                       October 7
        Closing discussion
        Course ends                     October 21

        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:                   October 7–November 25, 2011
        Deadline for enrollment:        October 6, 2011
        Cost:                           $150
        Course Leaders:                 Kerry Kammire and Jennifer Rolfes


        Prerequisites:                  Stata 11 or 12 installed and working.
                                        Internet web browser, installed and
                                        working. NetCourse 151 or equivalent
                                        knowledge. (Course is platform
                                        independent.)
        Schedule:
        Lecture 1                       October 7
        Lecture 2                       October 14
        Lecture 3                       October 21
        One-week break                  October 27–November 2
        Lecture 4                       November 4
        Lecture 5                       November 11
        Closing discussion
        Course ends                     November 25

        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:                   October 7–November 25, 2011
        Deadline for enrollment:        October 6, 2011
        Cost:                           $295
        Course Leaders:                 Kristin MacDonald and Gustavo Sánchez

        Prerequisites:                  Stata 11 or 12 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 7
        Lecture 2                       October 14
        Lecture 3                       October 21
        One-week break                  October 27–November 2
        Lecture 4                       November 4
        Overview                        November 11
        Closing discussion
        Course ends                     November 25

        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/




-- Kerry Kammire, StataCorp
   kkammire@stata.com
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