Imperial College MPH

1) We have agreed that students can get permission to get the same administrative rights on their laptops as staff members do. Advantage: easier for students to install Stata packages and R packages & run Stata more efficiently Disadvantage: Laptops are then more susceptible to viruses, despite antivirus programmes. Please note that if your laptop encounters such problems, your laptop may need a complete re-install and you might lose documents on your c-drive! Please contact the IT service desk if you want to get the same administrative rights as staff members do. Also read the important note on the bottom of this email. 2) We advise you to run Stata with the dataset you are using stored on your c-drive. You can store do-files and run them from anywhere you like. To do this, you need to ask for extended administrative rights (see point 1). Also read the important note on the bottom of this email. 3) The wireless network within the building has been improved, which will