A Gentle Introduction to Stata

by Alan C. Acock

A Gentle Introduction to Stata, Sixth Edition is for people who need to learn Stata but who may not have a strong background in statistics or prior experience with statistical software \packages. After working through this book, you will be able to enter, build, and manage a dataset and perform fundamental statistical analyses. This book is organized like the unfolding of a 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 standard statistical procedures from t tests, nonparametric tests, and measures of association through ANOVA, multiple regression, and logistic regression. Finally, you will find straightforward introductions to using Stata for measurement, multilevel modeling, multiple imputation, structural equation modeling (SEM), and item response theory (IRT).

The sixth edition incorporates new features of Stata 15. All menus, dialog boxes, and instructions for using the point-and-click interface have been updated. Power-and-sample-size calculations for linear regression are demonstrated using Stata 15’s new power rsquared command. This edition also includes new sections that describe how to evaluate convergent and discriminant validity, how to compute effect sizes for t tests and ANOVA models, how to use margins and marginsplot to interpret results of linear and logistic regression models, and how to use full-information maximumlikelihood (FIML) estimation with SEM to address problems with missing data.

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

614 pages, Kindle Edition

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!