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A two day short course "Introduction to Stata" will take place in the
Department of Social Medicine, University of Brstiol form 22-23 March 2007
For more infromation and details of how to book please see
http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk/shortc/introstata.htm
Tutors: Ross Harris, Becky Rooney (course organisers), Andy Judge, Roger
Harbord
This course is intended for anyone who wishes or needs to use Stata. No
previous knowledge of Stata or of statistics is required, although
familiarity with Microsoft Windows will be assumed. Students will gain the
familiarity with Stata that is a pre-requisite for several other courses in
this programme.
Objectives/course outline:
By the end of the course students should be able to use Stata 8-9 to:
Input data from a variety of sources;
Add labels to a dataset to make it self-documenting;
Check data for spurious entries;
Recode variables and derive new variables from existing ones;
Combine two or more datasets;
Produce summary statistics, tables and graphs;
Find online help about a given topic or command;
Keep a record of their work and ensure it is reproducible.
Teaching time: Twelve hours, consisting of practical sessions and short
tutorials.
Course fee: £300.
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Iris A Swanston
Department of Social Medicine
University of Bristol
Canynge Hall
Whiteladies Road
Bristol
BS8 2PR
Tel: 0117 928 7221
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Monday - Friday 8.00am-4.00pm
http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk/shortc/shortc.htm
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