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Course overview
Course o!"ectives
Stata demos
La!
Course )!"ectives
-ata management
11 Introduction to ST*T*
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La!s are due the 'ollowing wee% prior to lecture. La!s turned
in late 8less than 1 wee%9 will receive only hal' creditF a'ter
that$ no points will !e awarded. ?owever$ *LL la!s must !e
turned in to pass the class 8even i' no points are awarded9.
La! 1 is paper
-ue 1 wee% a'ter last la! session$ 26 points doc%ed 'or each 1
day late.
Course Baterials
Course )verview
/inal .ro"ect
)ther handouts
Boo%s
<etting started with ST*T*
Session 1
Types o' so'tware pac%ages used
in clinical research
Spreadsheets
-ata!ase programs
Custom applications
ST*T*
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BatLa!
Stat+,act
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Benu1driven option
<ood graphics
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Results window
-emo O1
Loo% at it
Run a command
ST*T* 1 &indows
Command
Results
)ptional windows
Paria!le list
)ther 'unctions
-ata !rowser;editor
-o 'ile editor
Log1'ile open;suspend;close
-o1'ile editor
Brea%
ST*T* 1 Benus
Loo% at it
Benu advantages
describe [varlist]
list [varlist]
codebook [varlist]
ci [varlist]
histogram varname
qnorm varname
tabulate [varname]
MCross1ta!N
-escriptive options
, row (row percentages)
, col (column percentages)
Statistics options
, chi2 (chi2 test)
, exact (fishers exact test)
<etting help
?elp menu
t1test
*J)P*
Load a dataset
/ind a datasetQ
&e!site addresses
Course we!site
http#;;www.epi!iostat.ucs'.edu;courses;schedule;!iostat212.html
Computing in'ormation
http#;;www.epi!iostat.ucs'.edu;courses;ChinaBasinLocation.html
Ocomputing
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http#;;apps.epi1ucs'.org;