Department of Sociology
College of Liberal Arts
Texas A&M University

(2018 Spring) Introduction to Stata

Introduction to Stata with the General Social Survey (GSS).
Syllabus

Lecture 1 - Introduction
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Lecture 2 - Basic descriptive statistics
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Lecture 3 - Measures of central tendency
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Lecture 4 - Measures of dispersion
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Lecture 5 - The normal curve
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Extra lecture - Append different years
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Lecture 6-7 - Introduction to inferential statistics & Estimation procedures
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Lecture 8 - Hypothesis testing I: The one-sample case
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Lecture 9 - Hypothesis testing II: The two-sample case
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Lecture 10 - Hypothesis testing III: The analysis of variance
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Lecture 11 - Hypothesis testing IV: Chi square
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Lecture 12 - Bivariate association for nominal- and ordinal-level variables
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Lecture 13 - Association between variables measured at the interval-ratio level
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Lecture 14 - Elaborating bivariate tables
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Lecture 15 - Partial correlation, multiple regression, and correlation
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– The General Social Survey (GSS)

GSS official website
Site

GSS Data Explorer
Site

GSS resources for this course
Material

– Stata Resources

Instructions for Accessing Stata Through the Virtual Open Access Lab (VOAL)
Texas A&M University
VOAL Instructions

Stata: Data Analysis and Statistical Software
Resource links

Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Carolina Population Center (CPC)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)
Introduction to Stata

Generalized Linear Latent And Mixed Models (GLLAMM)
Stata Programs for estimating, predicting, simulating

Stata extra modules
Material

Material about graphs in Stata
Stata twoway bar command
Stata graphics by Dawn Koffman
Stata extra graphics programs
Stata color codes