Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Introduction to Stata
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3315-18-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 05/03/2018

Date and time	02.05.2018, at: 08:00 - 03.05.2018, at: 15:00
Regular seats	20
Course fee	1,920.00 kr.
Lecturers	Thomas Scheike
ECTS credits	1.40

Contact person	Susanne Kragskov Laupstad E-mail address: skl@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list. Learning objectives The aim of the course is to make the participants able to - import and export data in Stata - do basic data manipulations - write simple programs (functions, loops, control structures) - perform basic statistical analyses in Stata Content The course covers fundamental use of the statistical software package Stata 13. Topics covered include: Introduction to import and export of data in Stata. Recoding of existing variables and calculation of new variables. Joining and reshaping data. Producing tables and graphics. Basic Stata programming syntax. Statistical analyses (e.g. descriptive and regression analysis). Half of the time will be reserved for hands-on computer exercises where we will expect students to bring their own laptops with Stata installed. Participants Ph.D.-students and health researchers with a basic knowledge of statistics corresponding to the course on basic statistics for health researchers. Max 20 participants. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: All graduate programmes Language Danish or English Form 2 days of lectures and computer exercises Course director Professor Thomas Scheike, Section of Biostatistics, thsc@sund.ku.dk Teachers Professor Thomas Scheike and other members of the staff at Section of Biostatistics. Dates 2 and 3 May 2018 from 8-15. Course location CSS Registration Please register before 5 March 2018 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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