A Gentle Introduction to Stata

by Alan C. Acock

After reading this introductory text, users will be able to enter, build, and manage a data set as well as perform fundamental statistical analyses. The book covers data management; good work habits, including the use of basic do-files; basic exploratory statistics, including graphical displays; and analyses using the standard array of basic statistical tools.

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

393 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!