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  • Tuesday, July 28, 2020; 1:15 PM to 2:15 PM

    Lecture: Introduction to Statistical Computing

    What is statistical computing and how does it relate to the overall research process? The importance of reproducible research. What is Stata? Stata compared to other statistical software packages. Tour of Stata windows and features.

    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:

    • Course info and syllabus 2020 - updated 07.25.20 File
    • Lecture 1 2020 File
    • Stata commands from lecture 1 / used in hw 1 2020 File

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

    • Course overview and syllabus 2020 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 1 2020 Media Resource
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    • Stata demo week 1 2020 Media Resource
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    • Recommended readings:

    • Goodman et al. "Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data" File
      Students must
      View
    • Wilson et. al. "Good enough practices in scientific computing" File
      Students must
      View

    • [Book] An Introduction to Stata for Health researchers

      • Ch. 1. Getting started
      • Ch. 4. Command Syntax
      • Ch. 6. Getting data in and out of Stata

    • Stata User's guide 16--Chapters 1, 3, 4

    • Ch1. Read this -- it will help File
    • Ch 3. Resources for Learning and Using Stata File
    • Ch 4. Stata's help and search facilities File


    • Assignment:
    • Mini Quiz 1
      Students must
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    • Assignment 1 File
    • Turn in Assignment 1 here
      Students must
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      Make a submission

    • Assignment Due Date: 8/4/2020 by 1 pm PDT

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Assignment 1 answer key File
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  • Tuesday, July 28, 2020; 2:30 - 4:00 PM (Additional Session on Wednesdays from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM)

    Computer Lab

    Live online session in which students have access to course faculty for questions on current or prior curriculum, assignments and software implementation

    Faculty: Amanda Irish, David Gibson, Jessie Grubman, Taylor Howell, Bhavika Kaul, Curt Johanson

    Location:  Zoom URL

  • Friday, July 31, 2020; 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

    Office Hours 

    Course faculty are available to address questions on course content including prior problem sets.

    Faculty: Amanda Irish

    Location:  Zoom URL


  • Tuesday, August 4, 2020, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    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
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      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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  • Tuesday, August 4, 2020; 2:30 - 4:00 PM (Additional Session on Wednesdays from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM)

    Computer Lab

    Live online session in which students have access to course faculty for questions on current or prior curriculum, assignments and software implementation

    Faculty: Amanda Irish, David Gibson, Jessie Grubman, Taylor Howell, Bhavika Kaul, Curt Johanson

    Location:  Zoom URL

  • Friday, August 7, 2020; 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

    Office Hours 

    Course faculty are available to address questions on course content including prior problem sets.

    Faculty: Amanda Irish

    Location:  Zoom URL


  • Tuesday, August 11, 2020, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    Lecture: Data management and cleaning part 1

    Renaming variables, generating new variables, modifying the codebook and recoding variables, if statements, data cleaning best practices and shortcuts

    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 3 - data cleaning part 1 File
    • Lecture 3 do-file
    • acupuncture_raw.csv File

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

    • Lecture 3 part 1 - modifying existing variables, labels Media Resource
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    • Lecture 3 part 2 - creating new variables, keep/drop Media Resource
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    • Lecture 3 part 3 - outliers, string variables Media Resource
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    • Recommended readings:

    • [Book] An Introduction to Stata for Health researchers

      • Ch. 8. Calculations
      • Ch. 9. Commands affecting data structure

      • Ch. 10 Taking good care of your data

      Stata data management manual

    • UCLA Data Management in STATA Tutorial URL

    • Assignment:

    • Midterm assignment and data Folder

    • Assignment Due Date:

    • Turn in Data Cleaning Midterm here Assignment

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Midterm example key Folder
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  • Tuesday, August 11, 2020; 2:30 - 4:00 PM (Additional Session on Wednesdays from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM)

    Computer Lab

    Live online session in which students have access to course faculty for questions on current or prior curriculum, assignments and software implementation

    Faculty: Amanda Irish, David Gibson, Jessie Grubman, Taylor Howell, Bhavika Kaul, Curt Johanson

    Location:  Zoom URL

  • Friday, August 14, 2020; 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

    Office Hours 

    Course faculty are available to address questions on course content including prior problem sets.

    Faculty: Amanda Irish

    Location:  Zoom URL


  • Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    Lecture: Data management and cleaning part 2

    Missing values, duplicates, and working with multiple datasets. Merging and appending data. Converting between wide and long. Using Stata's frames.

    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 4 slides File
    • Lecture do-files and datasets Folder

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

    • Lecture 4 part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 4 part 2 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 4 part 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 4 part 4 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 4 part 5 Media Resource
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    • Recommended readings:

    • Assignment:

    • Assignment Due Date:

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

  • Tuesday, August 18, 2020; 2:30 - 4:00 PM (Additional Session on Wednesdays from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM)

    Computer Lab

    Live online session in which students have access to course faculty for questions on current or prior curriculum, assignments and software implementation

    Faculty: Amanda Irish, David Gibson, Jessie Grubman, Taylor Howell, Bhavika Kaul, Curt Johanson

    Location:  Zoom URL

  • Friday, August 21, 2020; 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

    Office Hours 

    Course faculty are available to address questions on course content including prior problem sets.

    Faculty: Amanda Irish

    Location:  Zoom URL


  • Tuesday, August 25, 2020, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    Lecture: Data Visualization and dyndoc

    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 5 slides File
    • Lecture 5 do-files and dataset Folder

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

    • Lecture 5 part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 5 part 2 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 5 part 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 5 part 4 Media Resource
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    • Recommended readings:

      [Book] An Introduction to Stata for Health researchers

        • Ch. 11. Description and simple analysis 
        • Ch. 12. Regression analysis 

    • [ebook] A Picture is Worth a Thousand Tables File
    • Visual overview for creating graphs in stata URL
    • Stata graphics manual File

    • [Book] An Introduction to Stata for Health researchers

      • Ch. 16. Graphs

    • Assignment:

    • Assignment 3 - updated 8/28 File

    • Assignment Due Date:

    • Turn in Assignment 3 here

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Assignment 3 answer key File
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  • Tuesday, August 25, 2020; 2:30 - 4:00 PM (Additional Session on Wednesdays from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM)

    Computer Lab

    Live online session in which students have access to course faculty for questions on current or prior curriculum, assignments and software implementation

    Faculty: Amanda Irish, David Gibson, Jessie Grubman, Taylor Howell, Bhavika Kaul, Curt Johanson

    Location:  Zoom URL

  • Friday, August 28, 2020; 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM

    Office Hours 

    Course faculty are available to address questions on course content including prior problem sets.

    Faculty: Amanda Irish

    Location:  Zoom URL


  • Tuesday, September 1, 2020, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    Lecture: Tables in STATA

    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 6 slides File
    • Lecture 6 do-file
    • acupuncture.dta File

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

    • Lecture 6 part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 6 part 2 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 6 part 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 6 part 4 Media Resource
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    • Recommended readings:

    • Publication quality tables in Stata: a tutorial for the tabout program URL
    • tabout_examples.do File
    • Using outreg2 to report regression output, descriptive statistics, frequencies and basic crosstabulations URL
    • Free & Interactive Online Introduction to LaTeX URL

    • Assignment:

    • Assignment 4 File

    • Assignment Due Date:

    • Turn in Assignment 4 here

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Assignment 4 answer key File

  • Tuesday, September 1, 2020; 2:30 - 4:00 PM (Additional Session on Wednesdays from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM)

    Computer Lab

    Live online session in which students have access to course faculty for questions on current or prior curriculum, assignments and software implementation

    Faculty: Amanda Irish, David Gibson, Jessie Grubman, Taylor Howell, Bhavika Kaul, Curt Johanson

    Location:  Zoom URL

  • Friday, September 4, 2020; 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

    Office Hours 

    Course faculty are available to address questions on course content including prior problem sets.

    Faculty: Amanda Irish

    Location:  Zoom URL


  • Tuesday, September 8, 2020, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    Lecture: Basic Epi commands

    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 7 slides File
    • Lecture 7 data & code Folder

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

    • Lecture 7 part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 7 part 2 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 7 part 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 7 part 4 Media Resource
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    • Recommended readings:

    • Stata manual - dyndoc File
    • Choosing the correct statistical test URL

  • Tuesday, September 8, 2020; 2:30 - 4:00 PM (Additional Session on Wednesdays from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM)

    Computer Lab

    Live online session in which students have access to course faculty for questions on current or prior curriculum, assignments and software implementation

    Faculty: Amanda Irish, David Gibson, Jessie Grubman, Taylor Howell, Bhavika Kaul, Curt Johanson

    Location:  Zoom URL

    • Wednesday live session Zoom meeting
      Available until September 9 2020, 7:00 PM

  • Friday, September 11, 2020; 8:30 - 10 AM

    Office Hours
    • Office hours Zoom meeting
      Available until September 11 2020, 10:00 AM

  • Final Project

    Final Project

    Due: