2021
Learning goals
- Increase students’ understanding of and confidence with basic statistical concepts.
- Build students’ programming intuition and data management skills.
- Encourage collaboration and camaraderie among the graduate student cohort.
- Bring the grad school hidden curriculum out into the open.
Schedule
Monday, September 13: 10 am - 1 pm PT, on Zoom
Tuesday, September 14: 10 am - 4 pm PT, in McClatchy Hall
Wednesday, September 15: 10 am - 1 pm PT, on Zoom
Thursday, September 16: 10 am - 1 pm PT, on Zoom
Friday, September 17: 1 pm - 4 pm PT, in McClatchy Hall
*Check Slack and email for Zoom links and room numbers.
Instructors
Amy Johnson (aljohnson@stanford.edu) & Cat Sanchez (catsan@stanford.edu).
Modules and materials
Module 1: mindset, descriptive vs. inferential statistics, exponents & logarithms
Module 2: workflow, backup software
Module 3: probability, graphing in Stata
Module 4: variables, prediction equations
Module 5: goal setting, hidden curriculum, matrix algebra and calculus basics
Wish you could have bootcamp all year? Check out this tip sheet for a summary of Stata commands, coding best practices, and advice for the methods sequence and navigating Stanford Sociology.