An introduction to Stata for health researchers / Svend Juul, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Morten Frydenberg, Aarhus, Denmark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juul, Svend, author.

Frydenberg, Morten, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stata.

Medicine--Research--Statistical methods.

Medicine.

Statistics as Topic.

Mathematical Computing.

Research Design.

Software.

software.

Statistics.

Medical Subjects:

Stata.

Statistics as Topic.

Mathematical Computing.

Research Design.

Software.

Physical Description:

xx, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, Texas : Stata Press, 2021.

Summary:

"An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers, Fifth Edition, methodically covers data management, simple description and analysis, and more advanced analyses most often used in health research, including regression models, survival analysis, and measurement and diagnosis. A chapter on graphics covers most graph types and describes how to modify the appearance of a graph, for example, before submitting it for publication. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize the importance of good documentation habits to prevent errors and wasted time. To this effect, the book demonstrates the use of strategies and tools for documentation. The book comes with robust downloadable datasets that users can obtain from the book's website. This fifth edition of the book covers some of the new features in recent versions of Stata, particularly a much-improved suite of commands for power, precision, and sample-size analysis. With release 14, Stata introduced Unicode, giving the opportunity to go far beyond the Latin alphabet. The book also includes a completely revised chapter on careful documentation of data management and analysis, and a new section on the 9th and 10th releases of the International Classification of Diseases has been added. Svend Juul is a former associate professor, now part-time lecturer, in epidemiology at the Department of Public Health, Aarhus University. Juul has extensive experience in teaching epidemiology to medical students and others and in teaching Stata and other computer programs to PhD students in the health sciences. Morten Frydenberg is a former associate professor of biostatistics at the Department of Public Health, Aarhus University. He has a PhD in theoretical statistics and more than 25 years of experience as a biostatistical consultant in health sciences. Frydenberg has taught numerous courses in applied biostatistics at both graduate and postgraduate levels. He now works as a private biostatistical consultant"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I. The basics. Getting started

Getting help - and more

Command syntax

II. Data management. Variables

Getting data in and out of stata

Adding explanatory text to data

Calculations

Commands affecting data structure

Taking good care of your data

III. Analysis. Description and simple analysis

Regression analysis

Time-to-event data

Power, precision, and sample-size analysis

Measurement and diagnosis

Miscellaneous

IV. Graphs. Graphs

V. Advanced topics. Advanced topics.

Notes:

"A Stata Press Publication"-- title page.

Revised edition of: An introduction to Stata for health researchers / Svend Juul, Morten Frydenberg. Fourth edition. 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-324) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781597183154

1597183156

OCLC:

1264402620

Publisher Number:

99994568246