ABOUT THE COURSE
This training is designed to provide you with basic understanding and working knowledge of quantitative data analysis using STATA. It also covers skills of summarizing, visualizing and interpreting the data. There will be a strong focus on practice and applied case studies during the training.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN.
- Get famililar with environment of STATA
- Understand the syntax structure and the fundamental stata commands
- Create new variables, replace and recode values in existing variables
- Visualize data using Stata
- Handle missing data, apply variable and value labels, and work with string variables
- Compute and interpret descriptive statistics including mean, standard deviation, range, skewness, kurtosis and percentiles
- Compute and interpret, one and two-sample t tests
- Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR?
- Students and researchers looking to master STATA skills and publish in high impact journals
- Professionals looking for a career in analytics in corporate sector
- Faculty members and teachers looking to master STATA and advance their data analysis skills
- Research institutions and NGOs
- Anyone involved in Data Management and Data Analysis
COURSE OUTLINE
Model 1: Introduction to Statistics and STATA
Model 2: Descriptive Statistics
Model 3: Data Visualization
Model 4: One Sample t Tests of Hypothesis
Model 5: Two independent t Tests of Hypothesis
Model 6: Two dependent t Tests of Hypothesis
Model 7: Analysis of variance
DURATION
This is 6 days training program at evening (4 pm – 7pm) and the schedule will be as follows
| Start date: 8 March 2023 | End date: 17 March 2023 | ||
| Week/Day | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| WEEK ONE | 08/03/2023 | 09/03/2023 | 10/03/2023 |
| WEEK TWO | 15/03/2023 | 16/03/2023 | 17/03/2023 |
COURSE FACILITATORS
- MOHAMED ABDULLAHI MOHAMED
Bachelor of Applied Statistics
Master of Applied Statistics
- AWEIS ABDULLAHI HERSI
Bachelor of Econometrics and Social Statistics
Master of Science in Statistics.
Both of the facilitators are statistician and research practitioner with more than 8 years as well as certified trainers. Holistic knowledge of data analysis packages like MS Excel, SPSS, E-views, R, STATA, QDA, and Nvivo , as well as questionnaire designing platforms, ODK/KOBO Collect and Survey Solution.
COST
The course fee is $50 per person (course materials, refreshment & certificate).
NOTE: All participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop.