In January 2020, Vanderbilt University began providing its users with access to the O'Reilly for Higher Education instructional database. A multimedia platform featuring interactive digital books, audiobooks, videos, and both synchronous and asynchronous courses, O'Reilly for Higher Education offers extensive Stata instruction. This page provides three examples, all of which are asynchronous courses.
Please note that you must have a VUNetID and password and be logged into your VU account to access O'Reilly materials.
Each of the brief course descriptions below was drawn directly from O'Reilly's database.
Estimated course completion times (in hours:minutes) are listed below the descriptions.
Tips 'n' Tricks
- 120 Quick Stata Tips-Useful data management, statistics, programming, and graphing tricks to use in Stata
-120 professional and to-the-point tips for Stata within three hours
-Easy-to-use code files along with bite-sized videos in a modular approach
[03:06]
Data Viz in Stata
- Data Visualization in Stata-Learn basic methods of data visualization, variations, and customizations of visualization methods
-Gain experience of different data visualization techniques and how to apply them
-Implement code files along with bite-sized videos in a modular and easy-to-use approach
[07:55]
Regression Instruction & Stata Application
- The Stata Omnibus: Regression and Modelling with Stata-Comfortably interpret and analyze regression output from Ordinary Least Squares
-Learn tips and tricks around non-linear regression analysis
-Get familiarized with general regression terminology and the assumptions behind Ordinary Least Squares
[19:29]
