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Data analysis using Stata
Ulrich Kohler, Frauke Kreuter.
- College Station, Tex. : Stata Press, 2009.
- 2nd ed.
- xxv, 388 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
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- Subjects
- Contents
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- 1. "The first time"
- 1.1. Starting Stata
- 1.2. Setting up your screen
- 1.3. Your first analysis
- 1.4. Do-files
- 1.5. Exiting Stata
- 1.6. Exercises
- 2. Working with do-files
- 2.1. From interactive work to working with a do-file
- 2.2. Designing do-files
- 2.3. Organizing your work
- 2.4. Exercises
- 3. grammar of Stata
- 3.1. elements of Stata commands
- 3.2. Repeating similar commands
- 3.3. Weights
- 3.4. Exercises
- 4. General comments on the statistical commands
- 4.1. Exercises
- 5. Creating and changing variables
- 5.1. commands generate and replace
- 5.2. Specialized receding commands
- 5.3. More tools for recoding data
- 5.4. Commands for dealing with missing values
- 5.5. Labels
- 5.6. Storage types, or the ghost in the machine
- 5.7. Exercises
- 6. Creating and changing graphs
- 6.1. primer on graph syntax
- 6.2. Graph types
- 6.3. Graph elements
- 6.4. Multiple graphs
- 6.5. Saving and printing graphs
- 6.6. Exercises
- 7. Describing and comparing distributions
- 7.1. Categories: Few or many?
- 7.2. Variables with few categories
- 7.3. Variables with many categories
- 7.4. Exercises
- 8. Introduction to linear regression
- 8.1. Simple linear regression
- 8.2. Multiple regression
- 8.3. Regression diagnostics
- 8.4. Model extensions
- 8.5. More on standard errors
- 8.6. Advanced techniques
- 8.7. Exercises
- 9. Regression models for categorical dependent variables
- 9.1. linear probability model
- 9.2. Basic concepts
- 9.3. Logistic regression with Stata
- 9.4. Logistic regression diagnostics
- 9.5. Likelihood-ratio test
- 9.6. Refined models
- 9.7. Advanced techniques
- 9.8. Exercises
- 10. Reading and writing data
- 10.1. goal: the data matrix
- 10.2. Importing machine-readable data
- 10.3. Inputting data
- 10.4. Combining data
- 10.5. Saving and exporting data
- 10.6. Handling large datasets
- 10.7. Exercises
- 11. Do-files for advanced users and user-written programs
- 11.1. Two examples of usage
- 11.2. Four programming tools
- 11.3. User-written Stata commands
- 11.4. Exercises
- 12. Around Stata
- 12.1. Resources and information
- 12.2. Taking care of Stata
- 12.3. Additional procedures
- 12.4. Exercises.
- Other information
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- "A Stata Press publication."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-375) and indexes.
- ISBN
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- 1597180467
- 9781597180467
- Identifying numbers
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- LCCN: 2009419512
- OCLC: 317453408
- OCLC: 317453408
