StataCorp now supplies free tutorial movies on StataCorp’s YouTube channel,
http://www.youtube.com/person/statacorp
There are 24 movies offering 1 hour 51 minutes of educational leisure:
Stata Fast Tour (5:47)
Stata Fast Assist (2:47)
Stata PDF Documentation (6:37)
Stata One-sample t-test (3:43)
Stata t-test for Two Unbiased Samples (5:09)
Stata t-test for Two Paired Samples (4:42)
Stata Easy Linear Regression (5:33)
Stata SEM Builder (8:09)
Stata One-way ANOVA (5:15)
Stata Two-way ANOVA (5:57)
Stata Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient (3:29)
Stata Pearson’s Chi2 and Fisher’s Precise Take a look at (3:16)
Stata Field Plots (4:04)
Stata Primary Scatterplots (5:19)
Stata Bar Graphs (4:15)
Stata Histograms (4:50)
Stata Pie Charts (5:32)
Stata Descriptive Statistics (5:49)
Stata Tables and Crosstabulations (7:20)
Stata Combining Crosstabs and Descriptives (5:58)
Stata Changing Information to Stata with Stat/Switch (2:47)
Stata Import Excel Information (1:33)
Stata Excel Copy/Paste (1:16)
Stata Instance Information Included with Stata (2:14)
And extra are forthcoming.
The within story
Alright, that’s the official announcement.
Final Friday, 21 September 2012, was an thrilling day right here at StataCorp. After a few years of “wouldn’t it’s cool if”, and a few months of “we’re nearly there”, Stata’s YouTube channel was lastly prepared for prime time.
Stata’s YouTube Channel was the brainchild of Karen Strope, StataCorp’s Director of Advertising, however I had one thing to do with it, too. Nicely, perhaps greater than one thing, however I’m a modest man. Anyway, I assumed it seemed like enjoyable and recorded just a few prototype movies. Annette Fett, StataCorp’s Graphic Designer, added the cool splash-screen and after just a few experiments, we quickly had 24 Blu-ray decision movies. We’ve kicked off with movies masking subjects comparable to a tour of Stata’s interface, learn how to create fundamental graphs, learn how to conduct many frequent statistical analyses, and extra.
My private favourite is the video entitled Combining Crosstabs and Descriptives as a result of it’s related to almost all Stata customers and works properly as a video demonstration.
Movies about Stata – isn’t that like dancing about structure?
Stata has over 9,000 pages of documentation included in PDF format, a built-in Assist system, and a group of books on basic and particular subjects revealed by Stata Press, and an intensive assortment of dialog containers that make even essentially the most advanced graphs and analyses straightforward to carry out.
So aren’t the movies, ahh, pointless?
The issue is, it’s cumbersome to explain learn how to use all of Stata’s options, particularly dialog containers, in a guide, even when you may have 9,000 pages, and 9,000 pages tries even essentially the most devoted person’s persistence.
In a 3-7 minutes video, we are able to present you learn how to create sophisticated graphs or a complicated structural equation mannequin.
We’ve three audiences in thoughts.
- Movies for non-Stata customers, whom we name future Stata customers; movies meant to supply a loosely guided tour of Stata’s options.
- Movies for brand spanking new Stata customers, comparable to the one who may merely wish to know “How do I calculate a twoway ANOVA in Stata?” or “How do I create a Pie Chart?”. These movies will get them up and working rapidly and painlessly.
- Movies for knowledgeable Stata customers who wish to be taught new suggestions and methods.
There’s really a fourth group that’s of curiosity, too; skilled Stata customers instructing statistics or knowledge evaluation courses, who don’t wish to spend beneficial class time displaying their college students learn how to use Stata. They’ll refer their college students to the related movies as homework and thus free class time for the instructing of statistics.
Request for feedback
One of many enjoyable issues about working at StataCorp is that administration doesn’t a lot use the phrase “no”. New concepts are extra usually met with the phrase, “properly, let’s attempt it and see what occurs”. So I’m attempting this. My plan is so as to add a few movies to the channel each week or two as time permits. I’ve an inventory of subjects I’d prefer to cowl together with issues like a number of imputation, survey evaluation, blended fashions, Stata’s “speedy” instructions (tabi, ttesti, csi, cci, and so on…), and extra examples utilizing the SEM Builder.
Nonetheless, I’ll take requests. If in case you have a advised matter or a future video, depart a remark.
I’d prefer to hold the movies transient, between 3-7 minutes, so please don’t request feature-length movies like “The way to do survival evaluation in Stata”. Equally, subjects which are solely fascinating to you and your two post-docs comparable to “Please describe the distinction between the Laplacian Approximation and Adaptive Gauss-Hermite Quadrature within the xtmepoisson command” are usually not prone to see the sunshine of day. However I’m very fascinated by your concepts for small, bite-sized subjects that may work in a video format.
