A Gentle Introduction to Stata, Second Edition

by Acock; Alan C.

• ISBN13: 9781597180436
• ISBN10: 1597180432
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-03
• Publisher: Stata Press

Summary

"A Gentle Introduction to Stata was written for people who need to learn Stata, but who may not have a strong background in statistics or prior experience with other statistical software packages. After completing this book, the reader should be able to enter, build, and manage a dataset, and perform basic statistical analysis. This book is organized like an unfolding research project. You begin by learning how to enter and manage data and how to do basic descriptive statistics and graphical analysis. Then you learn how to perform and interpret standard statistical procedures from t tests, nonparametric tests, and measures of association through ANOVA. Finally, you learn about multiple and logistic regression. Readers who have experience with another statistical package may want to read chapters selectively and refer to this book as needed."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
List of Figures
Getting started	p. 1
Entering data	p. 19
Preparing data for analysis	p. 41
Working with commands, do-files, and results	p. 65
Descriptive statistics and graphs for one variable	p. 83
Statistics and graphs for two categorical variables	p. 109
Tests for one or two means	p. 131
Bivariate regression and correlation	p. 161
Analysis of variance	p. 183
Multiple regression	p. 219
Logistic regression	p. 259
Measurement, reliability, and validity	p. 283
Appendix: What's next?	p. 315
References	p. 321
Author index	p. 323
Subject index	p. 325
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