Data Analysis Using Stata, Third Edition (Paperback, 3)

The First Time
Starting Stata
Setting up your screen
Your first analysis
Do-files
Exiting Stata

Working with Do-Files
From interactive work to working with a do-file
Designing do-files
Organizing your work

The Grammar of Stata
The elements of Stata commands
Repeating similar commands
Weights

General Comments on the Statistical Commands
Regular statistical commands
Estimation commands

Creating and Changing Variables
The commands generate and replace
Specialized recoding commands
Recoding string variables
Recoding date and time
Setting missing values
Labels
Storage types, or the ghost in the machine

Creating and Changing Graphs
A primer on graph syntax
Graph types
Graph elements
Multiple graphs
Saving and printing graphs

Describing and Comparing Distributions
Categories: Few or many?
Variables with few categories
Variables with many categories

Statistical Inference
Random samples and sampling distributions
Descriptive inference
Causal inference

Introduction to Linear Regression
Simple linear regression
Multiple regression
Regression diagnostics
Model extensions
Reporting regression results
Advanced techniques

Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables
The linear probability model
Basic concepts
Logistic regression with Stata
Logistic regression diagnostics
Likelihood-ratio test
Refined models
Advanced techniques

Reading and Writing Data
The goal: The data matrix
Importing machine-readable data
Inputting data
Combining data
Saving and exporting data
Handling big datasets

Do-Files for Advanced Users and User-Written Programs
Two examples of usage
Four programming tools
User-written Stata commands

Around Stata
Resources and information
Taking care of Stata
Additional procedures

References

Author Index

Subject Index