Data analysis using Stata /
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| Author / Creator: | Kohler, Ulrich, Dr. phil. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | College Station, Tex. : Stata Press, 2009. |
| Description: | xxv, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7798356 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- About rhe Book
- Structure
- Using This book: Materials and hints
- Teaching with this manual
- "The First Time"
- Starting Stata
- Setting up your screen
- Your first analysis
- Do-files
- Exiting Stata
- Working With Do-Files
- From interactive work to working with a do-file
- Designing do-files
- Organizing your work
- Summary
- The Grammar of Stata
- The elements of Stata commands
- Repeating similar commands
- Weights
- Some General Comments on the Statistical Commands
- Creating and Changing Variables
- The commands generate and replace
- Specialized recoding commands
- Additional tools for recording data
- Commands for dealing with missing values
- Labels
- Storage types, or, the ghost in the machine
- Creating and Changing Graphs
- A primer on graph syntax
- Graph types
- Graph elements
- Multiple graphs
- Saving and printing graphs
- Describing and Comparing Distributions
- Categories: Few or many?
- Variables with few categories
- Variables with many categories
- Summary
- Introduction to Linear Regression
- Simple linear regression
- Multiple regression
- Regression diagnostics
- Model extensions
- More on standard errors
- Advanced techniques
- Summary
- Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables
- The linear probability model
- Basic concepts
- Logistic regression with Stata
- Logistic regression diagnostics
- Likelihood-ratio test
- Refined models
- Advanced techniques
- Summary
- Reading and Writing Data
- The goal: The data matrix
- Importing machine-readable data
- Inputting data
- Combining data
- Saving and exporting data
- Handling big datasets
- Summary
- Do-Files for Advanced Users and User-Written Programs
- Two examples of usage
- Four programming tools
- User-written Stata commands
- Summary
- Around Stata
- Resources and information
- Taking care of Stata
- Additional procedures
- References
- Author Index
- Subject index
