A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using Stata, Fourth Edition - Brossura

Everitt, Brian S.; Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia

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ISBN 10: 1584887567 ISBN 13: 9781584887560

Casa editrice: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2006

Riassunto

With each new release of Stata, a comprehensive resource is needed to highlight the improvements as well as discuss the fundamentals of the software. Fulfilling this need, AHandbook of Statistical Analyses Using Stata, Fourth Edition has been fully updated to provide an introduction to Stata version 9. This edition covers many new features of Stata, including a new command for mixed models and a new matrix language.

Each chapter describes the analysis appropriate for a particular application, focusing on the medical, social, and behavioral fields. The authors begin each chapter with descriptions of the data and the statistical techniques to be used. The methods covered include descriptives, simple tests, variance analysis, multiple linear regression, logistic regression, generalized linear models, survival analysis, random effects models, and cluster analysis. The core of the book centers on how to use Stata to perform analyses and how to interpret the results. The chapters conclude with several exercises based on data sets from different disciplines.

A concise guide to the latest version of Stata, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using Stata, Fourth Edition illustrates the benefits of using Stata to perform various statistical analyses for both data analysis courses and self-study.

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Brian S. Everitt

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Fully updated, the fourth edition of this highly acclaimed and perpetually bestselling text demonstrates how a wide variety of statistical analyses, including descriptive statistics, graphics, and model estimation and diagnostics, can be performed using Stata version 9. The authors present many of Stata's novel features, including a new mixed-models estimation command and a new matrix language. This edition also contains additional exercises that use various data sets and numerous examples of real-life data, enabling a better understanding of the methodology. The book offers selected solutions in an appendix as well as a solutions manual with qualifying course adoptions.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1584887567
• ISBN 13: 9781584887560
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 354
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania