About the Instructor
Dr. Karen Robson is a sociologist and statistical trainer with over ten years of experience teaching statistical software to university undergraduate and postgraduate students, health care professionals, government agencies, NGOs, and business people.
Do your employees need training in Stata or specific statistical techniques?
Does your organization require training in the Stata software package or statistical techniques? I can deliver customized training to your staff in your organization.
Stata Training
Previous courses I have offered in Stata are at the Introductory and Intermediate levels.
The courses are in a very similar format to the courses I teach at Essex (Introduction to Stata and Intermediate Stata) except instead of being taught over 5 half days, the courses will each be taught in 1 full day.
The courses are multidisciplinary in nature—they cover statistical techniques relevant to the social sciences, business, and health/medical disciplines. The approach used by Karen Robson is one that is non-technical and heavily relies on explanations in plain English. No econometric formulas are used in the course materials or when explaining the concepts.
Topics Covered in Introduction to Stata 12:
- Windowing in Stata 11
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Creating a ‘do file’
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Directories
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Opening data
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Converting file formats from other statistical software into Stata
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Summary statistics
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Frequency distributions
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Manipulating and creating variables
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Dummy variables
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Labeling variables
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Exporting tables
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Conditional crosstabulations
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Correlations
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T-tests
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Analysis of variance
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Scale creation
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Simple graphing
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Regression
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Using factor variables in regression
Topics Covered in Intermediate Stata:
- aggregating data
- working with files at different units of analysis (e.g. individual and household)
- organizing data for panel analysis
- creating local loops and macros
- fixed and random effects models
- commands for mixed models
- please note that the commands for fixed and random effects models, as well as multilevel models, will be covered, but that it is well beyond the scope of a one-day course to also cover detailed interpretations of output and the conditions under which such procedures should be used.
Statistical Training
Courses in introductory statistics, applied statistics (for policy makers), and multilevel modelling are also available. Please let me know your group size, proposed dates, and topics you wish to be covered and I will give you a quote.
For inquiries and more course information please contact me at info@statstraining.ca.
