The goal of this workshop was to familiarize individuals with the Stata statistical software package for use in quantitative research. By the end of the workshop, individuals should have been able to import and export data, clean and manage data, conduct standard statistical tests (e.g., correlation, t-test, regression), and produce a graph.

Other resources

• The UCLA Institute for Digital Research & Education has a website that contains a lot of information on Stata. Check out the examples listed under the Resources menu.
• The Stata YouTube channel contains a number of videos on how to manage, clean, and analyze data.
• If you are interested in learning more about Stata’s graphing capabilities, visit the Visual overview for creating graphs web page. At the bottom of the page is a link to a helpful book on graphing in Stata.

-Brian

Downloads

• Syllabus
• Workshop materials
• Answers to activities

This workshop intended to provide a starting place for understanding the basics of structural equation modeling, including when you should consider using it and some of the basic terminology associated with the method.

Intro to SEM_powerpoint slides

Link to video: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/recording/share/kqNYRFRLn9JCyEuu16iEQNgRb3JHch5jo9yqH2Qs9UewIumekTziMw

Follow up email based on communication during meeting: followupemail

Notation Cheat Sheet (credit: McCoy, 2016)

Here you’ll find a zip-file with materials from the How to Code in Stata Without Really Trying Workshop on April 24, 2018. Included are the dataset and syntax. The dataset is for instructional purposes only; it’s something I used for a course I taught on Stata programming. While there wasn’t enough time to talk about additional topics or challenges you’ve encountered in your own work, feel free to shoot me an email and we can troubleshoot.

-Brian

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Download zip-file: workshop materials

I will share the slides from the presentation as well – but for now, here are the two excel files i will be using to show you how to get started in Tableau, in case you want to follow along.

Excel file/subs: Sub Info-11sxv7d

Excel file/World bank: World Bank CO2 – Tableau Public Learning Resource-12vw149

Here you’ll find a zip-file with materials from the Regression Discontinuity Workshop on November 30, 2017. The Stata code uses made-up data to produce common analyses in RD studies. The code is somewhat complicated, so feel free to post questions in the comments or email me directly. The zip-file also includes the slides from the workshop, an article I asked participants to read before the workshop, and 3 user-written Stata commands. The user-written Stata commands are useful in determining the optimal bandwidth (-cvob- & -rdob-) and graphing treatment effects across multiple bandwidths (-pobw-).

-Brian

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Download zip-file: workshop materials

Here you’ll find slides and Stata code from the Instrumental Variables Workshop on November 29, 2016. In the code, I demonstrated the ivregress command. This command may be used when the outcome and endogenous treatment condition are continuous. There are, however, other instrumental commands in Stata:

ivpoisson: for Poisson models (count)
ivprobit: for probit models (binary)
ivtobit: for Tobit models (censored)
xtivreg: for fixed-effects or random-effects (multilevel) models

Feel free to post questions in the comments.

-Brian

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Download PowerPoint slides (in pdf format): iv workshop slides

Download Stata code (in txt format): iv workshop code