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

  • Navigate Stata’s interface and use do-files/log files

  • Import and label data from Excel/CSV

  • Clean datasets and handle missing values

  • Create descriptive statistics and visualizations

Key Topics

  • Stata Interface, Do-files, and Log Files

  • Importing/Exporting Data (Excel, CSV, DTA)

  • Variable types, labeling, and summaries

  • Data Cleaning: recoding, missing values, generating new variables

  • Graphs: Histograms and Bar Charts

  • Saving, filtering, and organizing your datasets

  • 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

  • Manage and reshape datasets for real-world research

  • Run t-tests, ANOVA, and various regression models

  • Create dummy variables and grouped summaries

  • Visualize results clearly for reports and papers

Key Topics

  • Data Management: reshape, append, merge

  • String & Date Variables

  • Dummy Variables & Group Summaries

  • Statistical Tests: t-tests, Chi-square, ANOVA

  • Linear Regression

  • Binary Outcome Models: Logit, Probit

  • Categorical Outcome Models: Multinomial, Ordinal Logistic

  • Count Models: Poisson, Negative Binomial

  • Visualizations: Boxplots and Scatterplots

  • 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

  • Model panel and time-series data confidently

  • Perform non-linear regression and survival analysis

  • Automate your analysis for reproducibility

  • Use advanced econometric trend models

Key Topics

  • Panel Data: Fixed & Random Effects, Difference-in-Differences (DID)

  • Time Series: tsset, lags, differencing

  • Non-linear Regression: Polynomial, Log-linear, Interaction Effects

  • Trend Models: Linear, Quadratic, Exponential Time Trends

  • Survival Analysis: Kaplan-Meier, Log-Rank Test, Cox Model

  • Survey Data & Sampling Weights

  • Report Automation: esttab, outreg2

  • 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

  • Software: Stata 18 or higher (trial available upon request)

  • Device: Laptop (Windows/Mac) with stable internet

  • Zoom: Latest version installed; headset recommended

  • Language: Instruction in English

  • SciExperts will provide resources and materials, including sample datasets, scripts, practice files, and a digital course manual.

Why Join?

Practical Skills: Hands-on training with real-world datasets

🎯 Expert Guidance: Learn directly from an experienced instructor

📈 Research Ready: Build confidence in producing high-quality, publishable analysis