Bureau of Socioeconomic Research and Training (BSERT)

Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

BAU, Mymensingh
Training Program on MS EXCEL, SPSS and STATA
Course duration: 08-24 May, 2017

Lecture Schedule (STATA)

Date Time Topic Resource Person

Introduction: What is Stata? Basics, Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan
Stata manuals, Additional Stata resources Professor
Help command, Search, findit and hsearch Dept. of Agril. Finance
18.05.2017 15:00 17:00 command, Basic command syntax,
Summarize command, Regress command,
Inputting and saving data
Arithmetic, relational and logical operators,
Error messages, Do-Files and log files
and histograms
Data management: Dr. Md. Salauddin Palash
Naming and labeling variables, Viewing Associate Professor
data, Missing values, Transforming data Dept. of Agribusiness and
20.05.2017 15:00 17:00 (generate, replace, egen, coding and recode, Marketing
by, if, in, drop, keep, rename, sorting,
ordering, inspect, list)
Summary statistics (Mean, total, confidence
interval, table, tabstat, tab2)
Correlation

Mean difference test (One sample mean Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan
difference test, Two sample mean Professor
comparison test, Two group mean Dept. of Agril. Finance
21.05.2017 15:00 16:00 comparison test), Non-parametric test,
Distributional plot and test (Symmetry plot,
Quantile plot, Normal probability plot)

16:00 17:00 Basics regression theory: Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan

Properties of OLS estimators, Professor
Heteroskedasticity, robust standard error Dept. of Agril. Finance

22.05.2017 15:00 16:00 Specification test and model diagnostic, Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan
Ladder of power test, Outlier test, Professor
Multicollinearity test, Specification error Dept. of Agril. Finance
test, Normality test
16:00 17:00 Regression analysis and output management
23.05.2017 15:00 -16:00 Logit and probit models Professor Dr. M. Saidur
Rahman
Dept. of Agril. Economics
16:00 17:00 Introduction to Time Series Regression Dr. Fakir Azmal Huda
analysis, ARMA & ARIMA Processes Professor
Dept. of Agril. Economics
24.05.2017 15:00 16:00 Vector Error Correction Model (VEC) Dr. Fakir Azmal Huda
16:00 17:00 Feasible Generalized Least Squares Method Professor
(FGLS) Dept. of Agril. Economics