Improving your Stata: data management, publication-quality outputs, and automating tasks

This course has been discontinued

Information is provided for reference purposes only.

This course aims to provide a more advanced knowledge of Stata 15/16 statistical software package, led by experienced Stata users from within Bristol Medical School. We cover graphical features, exporting results from Stata output and manipulating data.

Course profile

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This 3-day course will run online and consist of live code-along sessions led by an experience Stata user via Blackboard Collaborate. Small breakout rooms will be used for practical sessions with tutor support. 

By the end of the course participants should be able to:

  1. understand how to use Stata efficiently through using a greater range of commands;
  2. manipulate data using the egen command;
  3. reshape a dataset between wide and long formats;
  4. create a summary dataset of the original data;
  5. access stored results from Stata commands;
  6. automatically format and save output for tables;
  7. create publication-quality graphs;
  8. use looping structures for repetitive code;
  9. create a new dataset without altering an existing dataset open in Stata; and
  10. create Word documents using Stata with embedded tables, graphs and scalar results.

The course is intended for anyone who wants to increase their knowledge of STATA.

Participants should have a working knowledge of basic statistics such as linear regression. However, the course is focused on data management and programming skills rather than statistical content.

This course will cover:

  1. advanced functions and expressions using egen;
  2. collecting statistics and reshaping datasets;
  3. accessing stored results from Stata commands;
  4. creating publication-style tables in Stata;
  5. how to use macros;
  6. creating publication-style graphs in Stata;
  7. using loops to do repetitive tasks;
  8. posting data to a file; and
  9. automate embedding results in a Word document.