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Stata basics II: Descriptive Stats and Univariate Statistics

Description:

This three-hour course is designed to cover a variety of analyses that can be performed in Stata. It begins by covering the role of inferential statistics in quantitative research and moves on to performing univariate analyses via Stata.

Topics covered:

·       background to inferential statistics and its relevance

·       a review of types of variables

·       appropriate ways of displaying and describing data (simple numeric and graphical summaries)

·       a discussion of assumptions and what to do if assumptions are violated

·       basic univariate statistics

Pre-requisites:

Familiarity with the fundamental aspects of quantitative research methods and with STATA, including:

·       how to manually enter and import data

·       how to recode and compute variables

 If you are new to Stata, please enrol in Stata: the basics (Part 1) 

Software:

Macquarie University students can download the program by following the instructions here: https://students.mq.edu.au/support/technology/software/stata
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Mid Career/Senior Researchers

Graduate Research Students

Early Career Researchers
Venue: Zoom
Facilitator(s): Grace Yun
Enquiries: gr.development@mq.edu.au
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  1. For GR Candidates, "no shows" will be reported to your Principal Supervisor and Faculty Liaison Coordinator, and may jeopardize your participation in future GR training events.
  2. To cancel your registration, select 'unregister' in your registration confirmation or email the event enquiry contact as soon as possible.
  3. Your MQ ID number is the unique identifier for your registration and will not be disclosed.