A Gentle Introduction to Stata, 2nd Edition: 2nd Edition
Providing the basic collection of statistical procedures used by social scientists, A Gentle Introduction to Stata presents the fundamental tools to learn Stata. The book begins with showing how to enter and manage data as well as perform basic descriptive statistics and graphical analysis. It then examines standard statistical procedures from a t test, nonparametric tests, measures of association, multiple regression, and logical regression. The book ends with guidelines for future work and...
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Providing the basic collection of statistical procedures used by social scientists, A Gentle Introduction to Stata, Second Edition presents the fundamental tools to learn Stata. The book begins with showing how to enter and manage data as well as perform basic descriptive statistics and graphical analysis. It then examines standard statistical procedures from a t test, nonparametric tests, measures of association, multiple regression, and logical regression. The book ends with guidelines for future work and advanced topics. This learning source is an excellent introduction for those with little statistical software experience while also a useful reference for more knowledgeable statisticians by offering a detailed index of commands.
List of TablesList of Figures1 Getting started 12 Entering data 193 Preparing data for analysis 414 Working with commands, do-files, and results 655 Descriptive statistics and graphs for one variable 836 Statistics and graphs for two categorical variables 1097 Tests for one or two means 1318 Bivariate regression and correlation 1619 Analysis of variance 18310 Multiple regression 21911 Logistic regression 25912 Measurement, reliability, and validity 28313 Appendix: What's next? 315References 321Author index 323Subject index 325
