This page provides updates about upcoming Stata training courses and available learning resources.
Upcoming Stata training courses in South Africa
A Comprehensive Statistics Course Using Stata (5 days)
Available course dates: Monday 16 – Friday 20 April 2018 (5 days) — Cape Town, South Africa, Monday 14 – Friday 18 May 2018 (5 days) — Johannesburg, South Africa and Monday 1 – Friday 5 October 2018 (5 days) — Johannesburg, South Africa
Presented by CESAR (Centre for Statistical Analysis and Research)
Stata is arguably the best software for data management and statistical analysis. It is a fast, powerful statistical package designed for researchers of all disciplines. Stata is a complete, integrated statistical package that provides everything for data analysis from data management to basic analysis and advanced analysis. Stata makes it easy to conduct data cleaning and management, distinctly styled graphs, descriptive analysis and advanced analysis.
More Information and Registration Visit the CESAR website for more information.
Data Analysis Course Using Stata (3 days)
Available course dates: Wednesday 7 – Friday 9 March 2018 (3 days) — Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday 22 – Friday 24 August 2018 (3 days) — Johannesburg, South Africa and Wednesday 28 – Friday 30 November 2018 (3 days) — Cape Town, South Africa
Presented by CESAR (Centre for Statistical Analysis and Research)
Learn Stata, Research Methods, Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics in one course.
The course objectives include helping participants achieve the understanding of descriptive and inferential statistics; be able to summarise and present data collected in their settings; and be able to make inferences from data using Stata. The course will teach participants the following:
A cool introduction to Stata
Data management
Data Cleaning
Descriptive statistics including Stata graphics
Inferential statistics
Participants will be able to produce and interpret basic and intermediate descriptive and inferential statistics using Stata. As a result they will be able to take raw data, clean them, summarise them, analyse them and take appropriate action. They will also be able to interpret published research results for needed action.
More Information and Registration Visit the CESAR website for more information.
A Short Course In Inferential Statistics and Multiple Regression using Stata (4 days)
Available course dates: Monday 12 – Thursday 15 March 2018 (4 days) — Johannesburg, South Africa and Monday 27 – Thursday 30 August 2018 (4 days) — Johannesburg, South Africa
Presented by CESAR (Centre for Statistical Analysis and Research)
If you can calculate a mean, you can do multiple regression. Experience how we make multiple regression simple.
About the course: Every researcher wants to ensure that observed associations among variables are valid i.e. not due to confounders or bias. Multiple regression models are used to determine risk factors and predictors, adjusting for confounders. Therefore researchers and programme managers should be able to understand and interpret multiple regression methods and outputs.
The objectives of this course objectives include: Bivariate hypothesis testing, understanding validity: bias and confounding, use of regression to control for confounding, logistic and linear regression models, univariate (unadjusted) and multivariate (adjusted) models, building regression models, variable selection techniques, model assumptions, understanding and interpreting outputs This course teaches intermediate to advanced statistics using Stata.
Participants will be able to conduct inferential statistics and estimate measures of effect. They will be able to build statistical models adjusting for confounders, and interpret outputs.
More Information and Registration Visit the CESAR website for more information.
Stata learning resources
Stata NetCourses and short courses
Learn Stata by enrolling for one of StataCorp's convenient web-based courses or find short courses offered by independent sources in your country.
Available NetCourses
NetCourse 101, Introduction to Stata
An introductory 6-week course that teaches how to use Stata interactively.
NetCourse 120: Statistical Graphics Using Stata
An introductory 6-week course that teaches Stata's statistical graphics features in the context of data analysis.
NetCourse 151, Introduction to Stata Programming
An introductory 6-week course that teaches Stata data-analysis programming to those who have a basic knowledge of using Stata interactively.
NetCourse 251: Writing Your Own Stata Commands
An advanced 7-week course that teaches how to add new commands.
NetCourse 461: Univariate Time Series with Stata
An introductory 7-week course that teaches the practical aspects of time series that are most needed by practitioners and applied researchers.
NetCourse 471, Introduction to Panel Data Using Stata
An introductory 6-week course that teaches the practical and conceptual aspects that are fundamental for practitioners and applied researchers who want to perform rigorous panel-data analysis.
NetCourse 631, Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata
An introductory 7-week course that teaches concepts such as censoring, truncation, hazard rates, and survivor functions, as well as the analysis of survival data.
