A Gentle Introduction to Stata

by Alan C. Acock

A Gentle Introduction to Stata was written for people who need to learn Stata, but who may not have a strong background in statistics or prior experience with other statistical software packages. After completing this book, the reader should be able to enter, build, and manage a dataset, and perform basic statistical analysis. This book is organized like an unfolding research project. You begin by learning how to enter and manage data and how to do basic descriptive statistics and graphical analysis. Then you learn how to perform and interpret standard statistical procedures from t tests, nonparametric tests, and measures of association through ANOVA. Finally, you learn about multiple and logistic regression. Readers who have experience with another statistical package may want to read chapters selectively and refer to this book as needed.

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

333 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!