•Brief guide to the display windows and toolbar
•Interactive vs batch mode
•Introduction to Stata commands
•Options for entering
data
•“Log” files
•Formats
•Modifying
the data
•Combining datasets
Part II:Data Analysis
•Do-files
•Summary statistics
•Correlation
•Linear regression
•Generating predicted values and hypothesis testing
•Instrumental variables and other estimators
•Panel data capabilities
•Panel estimators