Introduction to Stata

Topics:

• By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
  • Work with Stata, including using Do-files and using the help system.
  • Get data into Stata and manage your data files
  • Establish familiarity with your data
  • Clean the data to prepare it for analysis
  • Check for basic errors in the data
  • Generate new variables or manipulate existing variables
  • Merge or reshape the data.
  • Produce summary tables and descriptive statistics.
• Note: This workshop does not cover any statistical modeling; see the series of free workshops on TeachTech (http://teachtech.umich.edu/) for these topics.

(Topics subject to change)

OFFICE HOURS

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday
Closed 12pm – 1:00 p.m. every Tuesday for staff meeting.
Voice: (734) 764-7828 (4-STAT from a campus phone)
Fax: (734) 647-2440

ADDRESS

Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR)
The University of Michigan
3550 Rackham
915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070