A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using Stata (2nd Edition)
 by Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Brian Everitt, (2000)

Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
ISBN: 1-584882018
Pages: 224 pages
Price: £29.99 + p&p

Contents

Table of Contents
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Table of Contents

Preface

Distributors for Stata

1 A Brief Introduction to Stata

1.1 Getting help and information
1.2 Running Stata
1.3 Datasets in Stata
1.4 Stata commands
1.5 Data management
1.6 Estimation
1.7 Graphics
1.8 Stata as a calculator
1.9 Brief introduction to programming
1.10 Keeping Stata up to date
1.11 Exercises

2 Data Description and Simple Inference: Female Psychiatric Patients

2.1 Description of data
2.2 Group comparison and correlations
2.3 Analysis using Stata
2.4 Exercises

3 Multiple Regression: Determinants of Pollution in U.S. Cities

3.1 Description of data
3.2 The multiple regression model
3.3 Analysis using Stata
3.4 Exercises

4 Analysis of Variance I: Treating Hypertension

4.1 Description of data
4.2 Analysis of variance model
4.3 Analysis using Stata
4.4 Exercises

5 Analysis of Variance II: Effectiveness of Slimming Clinics

5.1 Description of data
5.2 Analysis of variance model
5.3 Analysis using Stata
Exercises

6 Logistic Regression: Treatment of Lung Cancer and Diagnosis of Heart Attacks

6.1 Description of data
6.2 The logistic regression model
6.3 Analysis using Stata
6.4 Exercises

7 Generalized Linear Models: Australian School Children

7.1 Description of data
7.2 Generalized linear models
7.3 Analysis using Stata
7.4 Exercises

8 Analysis of Longitudinal Data I: The Treatment of Postnatal Depression

8.1 Description of data
8.2 The analysis of longitudinal data
8.3 Analysis using Stata
8.4 Exercises

9 Analysis of Longitudinal Data II: Epileptic Seizures and Chemotherapy

9.1 Introduction
9.2 Possible models
9.3 Analysis using Stata
9.4 Exercises

10 Some Epidemiology

10.1 Description of data
10.2 Introduction to epidemiology
10.3 Analysis using Stata
10.4 Exercises

11 Survival Analysis: Retention of Heroin Addicts in Methadone Maintenance Treatment

11.1 Description of data
11.2 Describing survival times and Cox's regression model
11.3 Analysis using Stata
11.4 Exercises

12 Principal Components Analysis: Hearing Measurement Using an Audiometer

12.1 Description of data
12.2 Principal components analysis
12.3 Analysis using Stata
12.4 Exercises

13 Maximum Likelihood Estimation: Age of Onset of Schizophrenia

13.1 Description of data
13.2 Finite mixture distributions
13.3 Analysis using Stata
13.4 Exercises

Appendix: Answers to Selected Exercises

References
Index