ISET-PI trains Competition Agency of Georgia Staff in the basics of econometrics and STATA. The objective of the training is to strengthen the capacity of the Competition Agency staff to use STATA to conduct independent data analysis, run OLS regressions and interpret robust results.

Starting from the data entry, the course introduces ways of running various operations, including operations on variables.

The course is divided into two main parts: in the Introductory part participants are introduced to the principles of the software and basic commands to manage software; in the more advanced part participants are introduced to basics of econometrics starting from hypothesis testing using the software and Ordinary Leas Squares regression (OLS) analyses.