HS237B

Materials for Lab Sessions

# Lab Session Materials
1 January 12, 2007 pdf icon What makes a good estimator?
pdf icon Prep for Lab Handout
pdf icon Intro to Lab
pdf icon Intro to Stata
Excel image CHIS Adult Topics PUF
text icon 1 Subset CHIS data
2 January 19, 2007 text icon Clean Demographics
PDF Icon Review of Probability
3 February 2, 2007 text icon Clean Health Var
text icon Descriptives 1
text icon Master Do-file
4 Februrary 9, 2007 PDF Icon Maximum Likelihood Estimation
text icon Clean Insurance util var
5 February 16, 2007 text icon Clean_Insurance_util_var
text icon create_sample_flags
text icon probit_logit2
6 March 2, 2007 pdf icon Review of Derivatives
7 March 9, 2007  



In order to view the homework assignments you will need a version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download for free here.

The datasets have .dta file extensions. In order to view the datasets you will need a version of STATA. For more information visit the STATA website. Students can purchase STATA directly from the manufacturer under the GRAD PLAN at a discounted price. Intercooled Stata 9 is recommended.

These datasets have been created in SAS and have .sas7bdat file extensions. In order to view these datasets you will need a version of SAS. For more information visit the SAS website.

Where indicated the datasets have been zipped. You will need compression software (such as WinZip) to view these files. Find out more about compression software here.