Synopses & Reviews
- Where do I start?
- How do I know if Im asking the right questions?
- How do I analyze the data once I have it?
- How do I report the results?
- When will I ever understand the process?
If you are new to using the Stata software, and concerned about applying it to a project, help is at hand. David Pevalin and Karen Robson offer you a step by step introduction to the basics of the software, before gently helping you develop a more sophisticated understanding of Stata and its capabilities.
The book will guide you through the research process offering further reading where more complex decisions need to be made and giving 'real world' examples from a wide range of disciplines and anecdotes that clarify issues for readers. The book will help with:
- Manipulating and organizing data
- Generating statistics
- Interpreting results
- Presenting outputs
The Stata Survival Manual is a lifesaver for both students and professionals who are using the Stata software!
Synopsis
'The Stata Survival Guide' is an introduction to learning about the software Stata as well as guiding the reader to develop a more sophisticated understanding of Stata. The book will have boxed examples, worked statistics and will use information from the British Household Panel Survey and more generic statistics to illustrate statistical procedures.
Table of Contents
Introduction
About the authors
Acknowledgements
Getting started with Stata
Data in and out of Stata
Manipulating variables
Manipulating data
Descriptive statistics and graphs
Tables and correlations
Differences in means, medians and proportions
Regression
Presenting your results
References
Index