Stata Basic, Intermediate & Advanced: Free Stata Live Training organized by SciExperts, Switzerland
Course Delivery
Platform: Zoom (Live & Interactive Sessions)
Mode: Lectures, real-time demos, hands-on exercises, and Q&A
🕘 Daily Schedule (Central European Time – CET)
⏰ 09:00 – 15:00 CET (Zurich) → Lecture & Live Demo, Break, Hands-on Exercises, Q&A, and Wrap-up
📅 Registration closes on 25 August – don’t miss out!
Register Here 👇
What You Get
✅ Certification: Digital Certificate of Completion
📦 Materials Provided: Sample datasets, code scripts, practice files, and a digital course manual
🔄 Post-Course Support: Continued access to code scripts for reference and practice
Course Overview
🔹 Day 1 – Stata Basic: Hands-on Introduction
Get started with Stata in a beginner-friendly crash course. This session is all about building your foundation—learning the interface, importing data, cleaning it, and producing quick visuals and summaries.
Learning Outcomes
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Navigate Stata’s interface and use do-files/log files
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Import and label data from Excel/CSV
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Clean datasets and handle missing values
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Create descriptive statistics and visualizations
Key Topics
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Stata Interface, Do-files, and Log Files
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Importing/Exporting Data (Excel, CSV, DTA)
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Variable types, labeling, and summaries
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Data Cleaning: recoding, missing values, generating new variables
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Graphs: Histograms and Bar Charts
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Saving, filtering, and organizing your datasets
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Q&A session with live guidance
🔰 Prerequisites: No prior experience required
🎓 Designed for: Students, beginners, early-career researchers in social sciences, health, economics, and related fields
🔹 Day 2 – Stata Intermediate: Modeling & Analysis
Ready to dive deeper? This session strengthens your skills in managing complex data, running statistical tests, and interpreting regression models.
Learning Outcomes
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Manage and reshape datasets for real-world research
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Run t-tests, ANOVA, and various regression models
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Create dummy variables and grouped summaries
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Visualize results clearly for reports and papers
Key Topics
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Data Management: reshape, append, merge
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String & Date Variables
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Dummy Variables & Group Summaries
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Statistical Tests: t-tests, Chi-square, ANOVA
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Linear Regression
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Binary Outcome Models: Logit, Probit
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Categorical Outcome Models: Multinomial, Ordinal Logistic
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Count Models: Poisson, Negative Binomial
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Visualizations: Boxplots and Scatterplots
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Reproducibility using Do-files
🔰 Prerequisites: Completion of Stata Basic or equivalent experience
🎓 Designed for: Graduate students, researchers, and analysts applying Stata in academic and policy settings
🔹 Day 3 – Stata Advanced: Mastering Research Techniques
Step up to expert level. Learn to handle panel data, run time-series models, and apply advanced techniques like survival analysis and automated reporting.
Learning Outcomes
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Model panel and time-series data confidently
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Perform non-linear regression and survival analysis
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Automate your analysis for reproducibility
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Use advanced econometric trend models
Key Topics
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Panel Data: Fixed & Random Effects, Difference-in-Differences (DID)
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Time Series: tsset, lags, differencing
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Non-linear Regression: Polynomial, Log-linear, Interaction Effects
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Trend Models: Linear, Quadratic, Exponential Time Trends
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Survival Analysis: Kaplan-Meier, Log-Rank Test, Cox Model
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Survey Data & Sampling Weights
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Report Automation: esttab, outreg2
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Final Q&A and Wrap-up
🔰 Prerequisites: Strong working knowledge of Stata and regression models
🎓 Designed for: Experienced users, researchers, statisticians, and data professionals aiming for publication-ready analysis
Instructor
Sabiha Gulshan is a statistics and demography expert with a strong academic background and deep hands-on experience in Stata. She holds an M.Sc. in Demography from Stockholm University, along with M.Sc. and B.Sc. Honours degrees in Statistics. With her focus on real-world application in social research, health data, and survey analysis, she brings a practical, engaging teaching style that bridges theory and practice.
Registration & Pricing
Course Fee: Free
Register at: www.sciexperts.com/register
Technical Requirements
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Software: Stata 18 or higher (trial available upon request)
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Device: Laptop (Windows/Mac) with stable internet
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Zoom: Latest version installed; headset recommended
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Language: Instruction in English
- SciExperts will provide resources and materials, including sample datasets, scripts, practice files, and a digital course manual.