340.600.01
Stata Programming I (Basic)
Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
Epidemiology
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
In-person
Thursday, 3:30 - 5:20pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
Yes
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Abimereki Muzaale
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
340.751-752 or 34.721-722; 140.621-622 or 140.651-652 or permission from instructors
Teaches Stata programming in a systematic way to students who have had exposure to Stata or another statistical package, but may not have the tools to perform complex analytical projects independently. Covers data management, programming concepts, procedural programming, Stata-specific commands and constructs, and project workflow.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate Stata commands that are necessary for analysis, but that students may not encounter in the core biostatistics/epidemiology series: reshape, collapse, encode, insheet; variable formats (strings, ints, floats, dates); factor variables; advanced graphing
- Produce Stata programming to make work more efficient and less error-prone: loops; macros, .ado files; text file output; automating table/figure generation
- Create project workflow so that data are not lost and results are reproducible: logging, commenting, versioning, file organization
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 90% Homework
- 10% Participation