Using Stata for Statistical Analysis is a supplemental text for undergraduateand graduate level courses involving research methods and statistical analysis. The manual will be written so that a wide variety of fields that offer suchcourses would be able to adopt it. Instructors most likely to adopt would include sociology, political science, economics, and psychology. These fields share a relatively similar approach to quantitative analysis and are all part of the trend towards using Stata as their primary statistical program. Longest proposes to teach the language of Stata from an intuitive perspective, furthering students overall retention, allowing for a student with no experience in statistical software to be able to sit down and be working with data in a very short amount of time.Features and Benefits -Stata screen shots provided throughout chapters to aid student comprehension -Examples of commands and procedures using real data from the General Social Survey will be provided. -'A Closer Look' boxes (similar to Frankfort-Nachmias) will provide additional information on more advanced topics. -Self-teaching style will allow novice Stata users ability to complete a basic quantitative research project from start to finish. - Exercises at ends of chapters will have answers provided to help students master Stata
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-9711-9
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés