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AITHM Workshop - An introduction to Stata statistical software

04 August 2016, 9:00am - 04 August 2016, 1:00pm

Professor Adrian Esterman

Cairns B1:104

This half-day workshop is designed for students and researchers who have a basic understanding of statistics, and are interested in trying out the Stata statistical software. The workshop will take place in a computer laboratory, so attendees do not need to bring their own computer.

In the first half of the workshop, Professor Esterman will take attendees through the following Stata material:

About Stata

Labelling

Tests of Normality

Stata windows

Do files

Confidence intervals

Entering data

Creating new variables

Comparing means

Importing data

Recoding variables

Comparing proportions

Help

Handling strings

Correlation

Log files

Handling dates

Regression

Operators

Summarising data

Wide vs long format

In the second half of the workshop, attendees will undertake a series of exercises aimed at using the material they have learnt. Attendees will be provided with a booklet containing the workshop materials, as well as an electronic copy.

Places are limited - please register to sally.mcdonald@jcu.edu.au

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