Apologies for cross posting. The University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine is running the following course. Introduction to Stata 8-9 January 2015 By the end of the course students will be able to use Stata 13 to: Find help about a given topic or command Explore a dataset in a number of ways Add labels to a dataset to make it self-documenting Recode variables and derive new variables from existing ones Reorganize and simplify a dataset and deal with missing values Input data from a variety of sources Combine two or more datasets Produce summary statistics, tables and graphs Keep a record of their work and ensure it is reproducible And optionally deal with dates. Please note:students will be given a brief introduction to some simple statistical commands; the focus of the course is not on the use of Stata for analytical purposes. Please visit our website http://www.bris.ac.uk/social-community-medicine/shortcourse for further details and booking information.” You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.