On-site training
StataCorp provides training for Stata users at all levels, from basic to
advanced usage and those with specialized needs. Whether your site has
recently adopted Stata or has a large number of people who need to learn a
specific facet of Stata, you can save yourself time with on-site training
taught by expert StataCorp personnel at your facility.
If you are interested in such training, please
contact us, providing some details
of what type of skills you would like to learn.
Below is a list of possible topics. The list is not exhaustive; it is
simply intended to help you tell us your training needs. If you do not see
what you need, just ask.
Basics
- Stata basics
- Keeping organized
- Knowing how Stata treats data
- Using dialog boxes efficiently
- Using the Command window
- Saving time and effort while working
Fundamentals
- Data management
- Reading in datasets of various standard formats (such as those from spreadsheets or databases)
- Labeling variables and setting up encoded variables
- Generating new variables in an efficient fashion, including leading, lagging, generating statistics within groups, and working across variables
- Combining datasets by adding observations and by adding variables
- Reshaping datasets for repeated measurements
- Work flow
- Using both menus and the Command window to work quickly
- Setting up Stata to one’s liking
- Keeping complete records of what is done inside Stata
- Creating reproducible analyses, which are completely documented
- Finding, installing, and removing user-written extensions to Stata
- Customizing how Stata starts up and where it looks for files
- Analysis
- Using basic statistical commands
- Reusing results of Stata commands, both estimation and other
- Using common postestimation commands, such as testing hypotheses about linear or nonlinear combinations of coefficients, generating fitted values, or looking at marginal effects
- Graphics
- Making common, simple graphs
- Building up complex graphs
- Using the Graph Editor
Advanced topics
- Specialized data
- Reading flat files, such as those distributed by various branches of the federal government
- Customized output
- Putting Stata results (not just data) into files that can be read into other applications
- Advanced Stata usage
- Extending Stata by writing new commands in the ado language
- Writing help files using SMCL
- Sharing user-written commands over the web
- Sharing datasets over the web
- Advanced graphics
- Making highly customized graphs
- Writing schemes to control the default look of graphs
Specialized analyses
Stata has a wide variety of statistical analysis tools. Training is offered
for each of the following specialty areas (listed alphabetically):
- bootstrapping (resampling)
- cluster and discriminant analysis
- do-it-yourself maximum likelihood estimation
- multilevel mixed models
- multivariate methods
- panel (cross-sectional time series) data
- sample size calculations
- survey data
- survival analysis
- time series
Contact us for more information.
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