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PubHlth 691F - Fall 2012
Practical Data Management & Statistical Computing, Section 2
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
UMass Amherst
Instructor: Carol Bigelow


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1. Principles of Data Management

2. Ethical Management of Human Subjects Information

3. MS Excel for Epidemiology


4. introduction to MS Access


5. Introduction to STATA

6. STATA for Data Description

7. STATA for Graphs

8. STATA for Analysis of One and Two Samples

9. STATA for Normal Theory Regression


10. STATA for Categorical Data Analysis


11. STATA for Logistic Regression

7. STATA for Graphs



PubHlth 691F Section 2 - 2012

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Lecture Notes 2012, 7. Stata for Graphs
(pdf, 56 pp)
Tip! Try the commands as you read along; right click to download
(1) relate100obs.dta
(2) tumor_grade.dta
(3) depress.dta
(4) roy_long.dta
(5) roy_wide.dta
Reading in text, Acock AC. A Gentle Introduction to Stata 3rd Edition
(1) Ch. 5. Descriptive Statistics and Graphs for One Variable. pp 87-113
(2) Ch 6.8. Tables Linking Categorical and Quantitative pp 135-137

(Source: German Rodriguez, Princeton University) Stata Tutorial - Stata Graphics
(html)
(Source: UCLA Academic Technology Services) Stata Library - Graph Examples
note - Some may not work w Stata v 10 or v 11

(html)
(Source: UCLA Academic Technology Services) Stata Graphs Written by Nicholas J. Cox
(html)
Homework Assignment due Monday November 5, 2012
Questions (pdf, 2 pp)
Data set with n=2,765: descriptive_gss.dta
Data set with n=900: descriptive_gss_small.dta
Homework SOLUTIONS
(pdf, 5 pp)
 
 


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Stata Corp - Visual Overview for Creating Graphs
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UCLA Stata Learning Module: Twoway Plots
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UCLA Stata Module - Some Advanced Plots
(html)
UCLA Stata Learning Module - More on xtline for repeated measures
(html)
UCLA Stata Learning Module - More on profileplot
(html)
 
 
 
 






 

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