Any idea about courses?

[tinatin manjavidze]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone have an idea about nice PhD level course in advanced STATA or basic R? very intensive one.

Will be happy to receive advices. Thx

[Nick Cox]

I have to suggest that asking about R courses here is not a good idea, although no-one (certainly not me) is urging a ban on replies. The point is mainly that you will get much more and much better advice in other forums -- and it's not me who can suggest what they are. (Advice on that could be helpful.)

Here is the first line in an advanced Stata course. The approved spelling is Stata. https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#spelling

More seriously, I think you need to be much more precise.

Are you asking about face-to-face teaching on a day course or residential course, in which case where you are or where you are willing to travel are key facts?

Are you talking about something on-line? Are you willing to pay money or interested only in what is free?

Are you talking about PhD opportunities in which use of Stata is key?

[tinatin manjavidze]

Thank you for your advice I'll take into account.

Actually, I need to gain 1 ECTS for my PhD study component, but its fine if the course will have more than 1 credits. I prefer to have face-to-face teaching, probably at least 3 days (need to have at least 25 working hours from course). I have attended the summer school in modern methods in epidemiology/biostatistics Treviso in June, and STATA was the main software to work (http://www.biostatepi.org/).

And now I was searching for advanced Stata course. found this one: https://www.timberlake.co.uk/courses....html#overview

I was just wondering if anyone knows better, which course can be helpful.
I'm working in STATA for my research and have quite good experience, but not advanced

[Nick Cox]

I don't know what ECTS are. It seems that you are based somewhere in Europe.

[tinatin manjavidze]

Yes, it's European Credit System, I wanted to say that I need the course for gaining credits

[Nick Cox]

OK, but despite being European [discussion would be off-topic] I still don't know quite what that means. Do courses say "our course is worth so many credits"? Do you tell people that you attended a course and there is some rule that says so many days mean so many credits?

I write on behalf of many people who may have little or no idea what you're talking about. You still to have to tell us how far you would be willing to travel and/or where you are based.

[Eric de Souza]

The first paragraph contains the essentials. 1 ECTS = 25 to 30 hours of workload which includes "contact hours" (classes, etc) plus estimated study time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Credit_Transfer_and_Accumulation_System
The ECTS system also proposes a grading scale.

And this source (https://ec.europa.eu/education/resou...system-ects_en ) says:
"ECTS is designed to make it easier for students to move between countries and to have their academic qualifications and study periods abroad recognised."

As far as I am aware all European Union countries have adopted it except for the UK.

[Nick Cox]

As far as I am aware all European Union countries have adopted it except for the UK.

My views on this were made clear at the wonderful German users' meeting in May. If you were there, you know what they are. Otherwise they are missing data for you? Impute, interpolate, guess.

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

Here's a naive question, but if you are in a doctoral program which has presumably put this requirement upon your degree, could your department or institution not offer such a course?

[Phil Bromiley]

You might look at the webinars offered by Stata - they're listed at Stata.com. You might check out Paul Allison's Statistical Horizons <[email protected]> which offers a bunch of courses. You might see if anyone is doing a distance learning course on Stata.

[tinatin manjavidze]

You might look at the webinars offered by Stata - they're listed at Stata.com. You might check out Paul Allison's Statistical Horizons <[email protected]> which offers a bunch of courses. You might see if anyone is doing a distance learning course on Stata.

Thank you!