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A handbook of statistical analyses using Stata / Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Brian S. Everitt.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rabe-Hesketh, S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stata.
- Mathematical statistics--Data processing.
- Mathematical statistics.
- Statistics as Topic--methods.
- Medical Subjects:
- Statistics as Topic--methods.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Other Title:
- Statistical analyses using Stata
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton, FL : Chapman & Hall/CRC, [2007]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- A brief introduction to Stata
- Data description and simple inference : female psychiatric patients
- Multiple regression : determinants of pollution in U.S. cities
- Analysis of Variance I : treating hypertension
- Analysis of Variance II : effectiveness of slimming clinics
- Logistic regression : treatment of lung cancer and diagnosis of heart attacks
- Generalized linear models : Australian school children
- Summary measure analysis of longitudinal data : treatment of post-natal depression
- Random effects models : thought disorder and schizophrenia
- Generalized estimating equations : epileptic seizures and chemotherapy
- Some epidemiology
- Survival analysis : retention of heroin addicts in methadone maintenance treatment
- Maximum likelihood estimation : age of onset of schizophrenia
- Principal components analysis : hearing measurement using an audiometer
- Cluster analysis : Tibetan skulls and determinants of pollution in U.S. cities.
- Notes:
- "Updated for version 9"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781466580572
- 1466580577
- Publisher Number:
- 99985048466
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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