STATA

Fast. Accurate. Easy to use. Stata is a complete, integrated software package that provides all your data science needs—data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting.

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Assoc. Professor. Rajendra Man Shrestha

Fast. Accurate. Easy to use. Stata is a complete, integrated software package that provides all your data science needs—data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting.

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1.  Introduction

·         Different levels (main window, command window, variable window, data view)

·         STATA commands (structure) (probably using the example of tabulate and tabstat)

·         Help and search function

·         Do-files

·         Log-files

2. Data management I

·         Variable measures (scale, ordinal, nominal)

·         Logic expressions (if, greater than, smaller than, equal, unequal, and, or)

·         Generate, replace, recode variables

·         Define variable and value labels

3. Descriptive statistics

·         Frequency tables

o   Frequencies, percentages

·         cross tables

o   Chi-squared test, significance

·         Means, mean comparisons

o   Mean comparison (t-test, ANOVA, non-parametric tests), significance

·         Correlations

o   Covariance, standard deviation, correlation coefficient, significance

4. Inferential statistics

·         Linear regression

o   Function and its elements, dependent and independent variables, assumptions and problems (heteroscedasticity, multicollinearity)

o   Modelling, dummy variables

o   interpretation (R-squared, regression coefficients), significance

o   estimation

·         Logistic regression (with binomial variable)

o   Function and its elements, dependent and independent variables, assumptions and problems

o   Modelling

o   interpretation (Pseudo R-squared, regression coefficients, odds ratio), significance

o   estimation

5. Data management II

·         Sort, keep, drop

·         Aggregate (collapse), merge

6. Graphs

Stata is a powerful statistical software that enables users to analyze, manage, and produce graphical visualizations of data