BUSS7902 Quantitative Business Research Methods

This repository is prepared for the optional Stata workshop of BUSS7902 Quantitative Business Research Methods at the University of Sydney in 2023.

The target audience is all Business School first-year MPhil and PhD students without prior Stata & statistic knowledge. Readers are also suggested to check out the Stata Workshop series on my website. Relevant links are provided also in the workshop structure below.

To use the materials, please download this repository to a local computer with Stata 16 or above installed. Then follow the structure listed below, open the associated Stata do files and execute as instructed.

Structure of the repository

This repository follows the recommended Stata folder structure.

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├── code
├── data
├── input
├── log
├── output
│   ├── figures
│   └── tables
└── temp

Structure of the workshop

Introduction to Stata

First, Stata Introduction on my website provides basic background knowledge of using Stata from its GUI, working directory, to some demonstrations of Stata commands. The code/introduction.do file in this repo also provides some basic usage examples.

Stata is made powerful thanks to the many additional commands built and published by scholars. These commands can be installed via packages.

Before we proceed to the next section, it is useful to have a detailed look at working with datasets to learn the ways of importing/exporting datasets in different formats, such as the Stata's native dta file, the csv files, as well as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

Statistical Inference

Note Below are subject to change.

Open main.do in Stata and execute relevant section.

Linear Regression Analysis