This is a two day workshop (February 4 and 5) in R which is a free and open source environment for data analysis and statistical computing. While R contains many built-in statistical procedures, a powerful feature of R is the facility for users to extend these procedures to suit their own needs. Excellent graphing capability […]
Topics: By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: Work with Stata, including using Do-files and using the help system. Get data into Stata and manage your data files Establish familiarity with your data Clean the data to prepare it for analysis Check for basic errors in the data Generate new variables […]
Ever want to know how to communicate with a database? You need to know SQL, a standard programming language for working with relational database management systems in data warehouses or just Microsoft Access. This workshop will cover the basic syntax of SQL. Material will focus mainly on how to query databases. A web-based tool will […]
Note: Topics are subject to change. Topics: Basics – Interfacing with Stata, Do-files, getting help. Working with Data Sets – Importing, opening, and saving data files. Data Management – Getting familiar with your data, adding informative labels, basic checks for issues. Data Manipulation – Generating new variables, working with subsets of data, merging files, reshaping […]