1. Documents for Today Download workshop materials to your home folder: – Open Firefox from top bar and go to http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~izahn/mit2012/ http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~izahn/mit2012/ – Right-click on the StataIntro.zip file, select “save as” – Navigate to your home directory and save there – From top bar, select Places > Home folder – Right-click on StataIntro.zip, select “extract here”

2. Opening Stata In your Athena terminal (the large purple screen with blinking cursor) type add stata xstata Stata should come up on your screen Always open Stata FIRST and THEN open Do- Files (we’ll talk about these in a minute), data files, etc. 2HMDC Intro To Stata, Fall 2010

3. How do I get Stata? Your Department IT Athena terminals at MIT HMDC labs Buy it: educational or grad plan http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/data/ software/index.html 3HMDC Intro To Stata, Fall 2010

4. Which Stata is right for you? Package Max. no. of variables Max. no. of right-hand variables Max. no. of observations 64-bit version 64-bit version available? Fastest: designed for parallel processing? parallel processing? Platforms Stata/MP32,76710,998unlimited*Yes Windows, Mac (64-bit Intel), or Unix Stata/SE32,76710,998unlimited*YesNo Windows, Mac, or Unix Stata/IC2,047798unlimited*YesNo Windows, Mac, or Unix Small Stata99 1,200No Windows (32- bit) or Mac (32-bit)

5. Stata Resources UCLA website: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/Stata/ – Great for self-study – Links to resources Stata website: http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?contents http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?contents HMDC computer lab library MIT library

6. Thank you! All of these courses will be offered during MIT’s IAP and again at Harvard during the Spring 2011 semester. Introduction to Stata Data Management in Stata Regression in Stata Graphics in Stata Introduction to R Introduction to SAS Sign up for MIT workshops at: http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/data/training/workshops.html http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/data/training/workshops.html Sign up for Harvard workshops by emailing: dataclass@help.hmdc.harvard.edu 6