Lecture 1 - Table of Contents

1. The basics

1.1 Using directories to organize your work
1.2 The current directory: Summary
1.3 Dealing with files
1.4 Filenames in Stata
1.5 Loading the automobile data

2. The basics of Stata

2.1 How Stata conceptualizes data
2.2 Stata's command syntax
2.3 The minimum set of commands everyone should know
2.4 Working interactively: Getting organized
2.5 Working interactively: Making Stata stop
2.6 Working interactively: Keeping logs
2.7 Using the Stata Viewer

3. Using search and updating Stata

3.1 Installing Stata updates over the web
3.2 Installing new commands over the web: the SJ and the STB
3.3 Installing new commands over the web: other sources
3.4 Installing new commands: Statalist

4. Summary
5. Exercises

Lecture 2 - Table of Contents

1. Working with data

1.1 The data in memory
1.2 Value labels
1.3 Formats
1.4 Other kinds of labels

2. Safe computing
3. Basic data reporting
4. Data manipulation
5. Making strings into numerical categorical variables

5.1 Doing things the long way
5.2 The second solution
5.3 The best solution

6. Observation subscripts _n and _N
7. Memory management
8. Summary
9. Exercises