A Gentle Introduction to Stata

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Stata Press, 2006 - Computers - 289 pages
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 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.

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Contents

Entering data
21
Preparing data for analysis
39
Working with commands dofiles and results
61
21
91
Statistics and graphs for two categorical variables
101
24
108
Tests for one or two means
119
Bivariate correlation and regression
149
Analysis of variance ANOVA
177
Multiple regression
211
Logistic regression
249
Whats next?
271
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