Bishwajit Ghose

Course outline

Getting started

·      Customising the environment

·      Getting familiar with the drop-down menu

·      Getting familiar with the basic commands

·      Importing non-Stata datasets

·      Working with ASCII files

·      Saving datasets into non-Stata formats

·      Installing packages from SSC

·      Using do and log files

·      Data processing

 

Data types in Stata

·      Conversion into different data types

·      Recoding and renaming variables

·      Label variables and value levels

·      Contract and collapse

·      Concatenate variables

·      Reshape dataset from long to wide and wide to long

·      Generating new variables

·      Appending and merging datasets

·      Subsetting datasets

·      Using frames (Stata 16 or higher)

·      Impute missing values

 

 

Descriptive analysis

 

·      Two and three-way cross-tabulations

·      Using tabstat, tabout and basetable

·      Making publication-quality  summary tables.

·      Row and column functions (rowmax, rowtotal)

 

 

Regression analyses

 

·      Generalized Linear Models

·      Linear Regression

·      Logistic Regression

·      MANOVA & MANCOVA

·      Propensity Score Matching

·      Decomposition analysis (Blinder-Oaxaca)

·      Marginal effects

·      Generalised estimating equations

·      Quantile Regression

·      Goodness-of-fit measures

·      Likelihood-ratio tests

 

Visualisation

 

·      Grammar of Stata graphics

·      Advanced charting packages

·      Plotting regression estimates

·      Combining multiple charts

·      Manipulating legend options

·      Using advanced color schemes

·      Choropleth map

·      Heatmap

·      correlation plot

·      Marginsplot

·      Time-series plot

·      ROC/AUC plot

·      Microeconometric analyses (Optional)

 

Time series analysis

·      Panel Data Analysis using World Bank data

·      Quantile Regression

·      Latent Class Analysis

·      Hierarchical Linear Models

 

Epidemiological analyses (Optional)

 

·      Analysis of complex survey data (svy)

·      Accessing health databases within Stata

·      Importing and analysing World Development Indicators data  

·      Principal Components Analysis

·      Factor Analysis

·      Path analysis (mediation and moderation)

·      Structural equation modelling

·      Survival analysis

 

 

Basic Stata programming (Optional)

 

·      Using the loop commands (foreach, forvalues, while)

·      Setting local and global macros

·      Running Python within Stata