Section outline

  • Lecture: Stata Basics and Organization

    Project organization, workflow, and working directories; Intro to STATA projects; Importing/Exporting data, Do-file best practices; Saving Data; Log files

    Faculty:  Amanda Irish

    • Live Interactive Discussion: Zoom URL. Brief formal review of lecture followed by question and answer discussion. Recorded lecture should be viewed prior to this session.

    • Lecture Slides:

    • Lecture 2 updated 8/4/2020 File
    • Stata demo code week 2 2020 File

    • Lecture Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lecture 2 part 1 2020 - Stata basics Media Resource
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    • Lecture 2 part 2 2020 - Project Organization Media Resource
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    • Lecture 2 part 3 2020 - Basic data exploration Media Resource
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    • Stata demo week 2 2020 Media Resource
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    • Recommended readings:

    • Stata Manual: Project Manager File
    • Ch. 2. Data description File

    • [Book] An Introduction to Stata for Health researchers

      • Ch. 4. Command Syntax
      • Ch. 5. Variables

    • [eBook] Biostatistics in Public Health Using STATA

    • "In Stata coding, Style is the Essential: A brief commentary on do-file style" by Michael Hill URL

    • Assignment:

    • Mini Quiz 2
      Students must
      View
      Receive a grade
    • Assignment 2 File
      Not available unless: The activity Mini Quiz 2 is marked complete
    • acupuncture_baseline.dta File
    • acupuncture baseline data for Stata version 13 File
    • acupuncture baseline data for Stata version 12 File

    • Assignment Due Date: 8/11/2020 by 1 pm PDT

    • Turn in Assignment 2 here
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    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Assignment 2 answer key File
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