Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/08/2016 - 04/09/2016
All Day
Categories No Categories
Start Date: 4/8/2016
End Date: 4/9/2016
Location:
Temple University Center City
1515 Market Street
Philadelphia
Website: http://statisticalhorizons.com/seminars/public-seminars/statwstat16
Contact: 610-642-1941
Taught by Stephen Vaisey, Ph.D.
With its user-friendly interface and strong analytical and graphical abilities, Stata is the preferred statistical analysis tool for large numbers of data analysts in economics, statistics, sociology, education, and biomedicine, as well as in the business domains of finance, consulting, investment management, and marketing. Stata is extremely powerful but also easy to learn. Its amazing help files and fully integrated manuals system really set Stata apart. After achieving a basic familiarity with the syntax and interface, Stata can be learned much more quickly than its competitors. A large community of Stata users also provides a rich community of support as well as thousands of helpful add-on commands that can dramatically extend the softwares capabilities. Overall, Stata is extremely versatile software that is a valuable addition to any analysts toolbox.
This two-day seminar will provide a comprehensive introduction to Stata software, covering Statas data management, graphics, data analysis, and statistical modeling capabilities. Participants will develop facility with Statas data manipulation commands, its wide array of graphical tools for exploring data, and the implementation of frequently used statistical tests and regression models.
Attendees will learn how to use Stata to perform continuous and categorical data comparisons and regression analysis, including linear and logistic regression. The seminar will teach participants how to interpret and customize Statas numerical and graphical output and how to incorporate these results directly into research reports. Participants completing the seminar will have gained the ability to confidently use Stata to organize and analyze data.
