A Gentle Introduction to Stata

by Alan C. Acock

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.

Genres: Sociology, Grad School, Research, Nonfiction, Economics, Textbooks

290 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Hillary Corwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mildly helpful, but YouTube tutorials are more helpful and free, so the book isn't really worth it. If you need a book to hold you by the hand and walk you through everything step by step, then this might be a good choice. If you aren't a total computer/stats neophyte, it's probably a waste of time, money, and trees.

[Abrar · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book highlighted the basic steps of using STATA statistical software for beginners.

[Hojjat Sayyadi · Rating 5 out of 5]

از بهترین کتابهای تحلیل آماری با نرم افزار استاتا که برای مبتدیان قابل استفاده است.

[Erika · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book to help you get started in Stata, which is a statistical analysis/graphics package. I love parts of it for its statistics teaching, very understandable but quite thorough. The book helped me get a deeper understanding of elementary analyses, not only how to perform them in Stata.

I didn't give the book 5 stars, because I could put it down.

[christie]

believe it or not, i really am reading this book.

[Jenn · Rating 2 out of 5]

too gentle!

[Charlotte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, but maybe a little too gentle. The target audience is people who have not previously used any kind of statistical software/programming language.

[Diana Guevara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful!