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  • Tuesday, July 20, 2021; 1:15 PM to 2:15 PM

    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:  Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    • Lecture Slides:

    • Lecture 1 2021 File
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    • Stata commands from lecture 1 / used in hw 1 2021 File

      Commands covered in Lecture 1 Stata demo

      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only

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

    • Lecture 1 2021 Media Resource
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    • Stata L1 demo week 1 2021 Media Resource
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    • Large Group Discussion (Access restricted to registered students): Brief formal review of lecture followed by question and answer discussion. Recorded lecture should be viewed prior to this session.

    • L1 Large Group Session Slides File
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    • Additional Resources:

    • 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
    • Stata 17 User Guide File


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

      YOU MUST COMPLETE MINI QUIZ 1 IN ORDER TO GAIN ACCESS TO AND SUBMIT YOUR ASSIGNMENT!

      Be sure to turn in a do file and a log file!

    • Assignment Due Date: 7/27/2021 by 1 pm PST

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

    • HW1 Answer Key File

  • Tuesday, July 20, 2021; 2:30 - 4:00 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: Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    Location:  Zoom

  • Friday, July 23, 2021; 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

    Office Hours 

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

    Faculty: Crystal Langlais, Nizar Hakam, Eric Smith

    Location:  Zoom


  • Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    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:  Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    • Lecture Slides:

    • Lecture 2 2021 File
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    • Stata demo code week 2 2021 File
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    • Lecture Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lecture 2 part 1 2021 - Stata basics Media Resource
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    • Lecture 2 part 2 2021 - Project Organization Media Resource
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    • Lecture 2 part 3 2021 - Basic data exploration Media Resource
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    • Stata demo week 2 2021 Media Resource
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    • Large Group Discussion (Access restricted to registered students): Brief formal review of lecture followed by question and answer discussion. Recorded lecture should be viewed prior to this session.

    • L2 Large Group Session Slides File
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    • Additional Resources:

    • 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
    • acupuncture_baseline.dta File
      Not available unless: The activity Mini Quiz 2 is marked complete

    • Assignment Due Date: 8/3/2021 by 1 pm PST

    • Turn in Assignment 2 here
      Be sure to turn in a do file and a log file!
      Not available unless: The activity Mini Quiz 2 is marked complete

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

    • HW2 Answer Key File

  • Tuesday, July 27, 2021; 2:30 - 4:00 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: Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    Location:  MH-1400 and online

  • Friday, July 30, 2021; 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

    Office Hours 

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

    Faculty: Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Emily Murphy

    Location:  Zoom


  • Tuesday, August 3, 2021, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    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:  Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    • Lecture Slides:

    • Lecture 3 2021- data cleaning part 1 File
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    • Lecture 3 2021 - Stata Demo do-file
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    • acupuncture_raw.csv File

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

    • Lecture 3 2021 part 1 - modifying existing variables, labels Media Resource
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    • Lecture 3 2021 part 2 - creating new variables, keep/drop Media Resource
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    • Lecture 3 2021 part 3 - outliers, string variables Media Resource
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    • Large Group Discussion (Access restricted to registered students): Brief formal review of lecture followed by question and answer discussion. Recorded lecture should be viewed prior to this session.

    • L3 Large Group Session Slides File
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    • Additional Resources:

    • [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
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    • Assignment Due Date:

    • Turn in Data Cleaning Midterm here - Due 8/17 @ 1PM PDT Assignment

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

    • Midterm Answer Key Folder
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  • Tuesday, August 3, 2021; 2:30 - 4:00 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: Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    Location:  MH-1400 and online

  • Friday, August 6, 2021; 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

    Office Hours 

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

    Faculty: Crystal Langlais, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain

    Location:  Zoom


  • Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    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:  Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    • Lecture Slides:

    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 4 slides File
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    • Lecture do-files and datasets Folder

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

    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 4 part 1 Media Resource
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    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 4 part 2 Media Resource
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    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 4 part 3 Media Resource
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    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 4 part 4 Media Resource
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    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 4 part 5 Media Resource
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    • Large Group Discussion (Access restricted to registered students): Brief formal review of lecture followed by question and answer discussion. Recorded lecture should be viewed prior to this session.

    • L4 Large Group Session Slides File

    • Recommended readings:

    • No Assignment. Continue to work on your Midterm, due 8/17 @ 1PM PDT. 

  • Tuesday, August 10, 2021; 2:30 - 4:00 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: Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    Location:  online

  • Friday, August 13, 2021; 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

    Office Hours 

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

    Faculty: Crystal Langlais, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    Location:  Zoom


  • Tuesday, August 17, 2021, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    Data Visualization and dyndoc

    Faculty:  Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    • Lecture Slides:

    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 5 slides File
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only
    • Lecture 5 do-files and dataset Folder

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

    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 5 part 1 Media Resource
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    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 5 part 2 Media Resource
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    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 5 part 3 Media Resource
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    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 5 part 4 Media Resource
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    • Large Group Discussion (Access restricted to registered students): Brief formal review of lecture followed by question and answer discussion. Recorded lecture should be viewed prior to this session.

    • L5 Large Group Session Slides File
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only

    • 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 - Due 8/24 @ 1PM PST File

      covers week 5 material 

    • Assignment Due Date: 8/24 @ 1PM PST

    • Turn in Assignment 3 here

      Turn in the do, log, and word files you created in assignment 3.

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

  • Tuesday, August 17, 2021; 2:30 - 4:00 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: Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    Location:  online

  • Friday, August 20, 2021; 8:30 AM to 10 AM

    Office Hours 

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

    Faculty: Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Ridhima Jain

    Location:  Zoom


  • Tuesday, August 24, 2021, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    Tables in STATA

    Faculty:  Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    • Lecture Slides:

    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 6 Slides File
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only
    • Lecture 6 do-file
    • acupuncture.dta File

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

    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 6 part 1 Media Resource
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    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 6 part 2 Media Resource
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    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 6 part 3 Media Resource
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    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 6 part 4 Media Resource
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    • Large Group Discussion (Access restricted to registered students): Brief formal review of lecture followed by question and answer discussion. Recorded lecture should be viewed prior to this session.

    • L6 Large Group Session Slides File
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only

    • 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 - Due 8/31 @ 1PM File

    • Assignment Due Date: 8/31 @ 1PM PST

    • Turn in Assignment 4 here

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

  • Tuesday, August 24, 2021; 2:30 - 4:00 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: Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    Location:  online

  • Friday, August 27, 2021; 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

    Office Hours 

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

    Faculty: Crystal Langlais

    Location:  Zoom


  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 1:15 - 2:15 PM

    Basic Epi commands

    Faculty:  Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    • Lecture Slides:

    • BS 212 2021 Lecture 7 Slides File
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    • 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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    • Large Group Discussion (Access restricted to registered students): Brief formal review of lecture followed by question and answer discussion. Recorded lecture should be viewed prior to this session.

    • L7 Large Group Session Slides File
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    • L7 Large Group dyndoc example Folder

    • Additional Resources:

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

  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021; 2:30 - 4:00 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: Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Nizar Hakam, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Eric Smith

    Location:  online

  • Friday, September 3, 2021; 8:30 - 10 AM

    Office Hours 

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

    Faculty: Crystal Langlais, Cozie Gwaikolo, Ridhima Jain, Emily Murphy, Nizar Hakam, Eric Smith

    Location:  Zoom


  • Final Project

    Final Project

    Due: 

    • Final project instructions 2021 File
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    • Example Final Project File
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    • Turn in your Final Project here - Due 9/7 @ 1PM PST Assignment

       Turn in: 

      - .docx or .pdf with the table, figure, and short description; 

      - .do file