INTENSIVE: Stata

This is a 2-day intensive presentation of the D-Lab’s Introductory Stata workshop series. It will cover the following materials. 

Part I:  Introduction 

• Getting a dataset into Stata (no previous knowledge expected)
• Examining a dataset and finding variables of interest 
• Summarizing and tabulating variables
• Stata specific tools and resources (do files, logs, help files, etc)
• Coding and cleaning data (making new variables from old variables; labeling variables and values, etc)
• Using logical operators in Stata 
• Cross-tabulations

Part II: Data Analysis in Stata

• Correlation
• T-tests
• OLS and logistic regression (basic syntax, using interaction terms, interpreting output)
• Regression postestimation (getting predicted values, basic graphs)
• Merging and appending datasets

Part III: Stata Programming

• Looping (foreach, forvalues)
• Using local and global variables (macros)
• Reshaping data between wide and long formats
• Generating nicely formatted journal-style tables
• Recalling and using regression output

Prerequisite:  A basic understanding of variables (nominal, ordinal, continuous), descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation), correlation, and regression.