A handbook of statistical analyses using Stata / Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Brian S. Everitt.

This 4th edition has been updated to provide an introduction to Stata Version 9, and covers the new command for mixed models and a new matrix language. Each chapter describes the analysis appropriate for a particular application, focusing on the medical, social, and behavioural fields. With each new...

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Main Author: Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia
Other Authors: Everitt, Brian S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2007
Edition:4th ed.
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Online Access:http://www.stata.com/texts/stas4
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A brief introduction to Stata
  • 2. Data description and simple inference: female psychiatric patients
  • 3. Multiple regression: determinants of pollution in U.S. cities
  • 4. Analysis of variance I: treating hypertension
  • 5. Analysis of variance II: effectiveness of slimming clinics
  • 6. Logistic regression: treatment of lung cancer and diagnosis of heart attacks
  • 7. Generalized linear models: australian school children
  • 8. Summary measure analysis of longitudinal data: treatment of post-natal depression
  • 9. Random effects models: thought disorder and schizophrenia
  • 10. Generalized estimating equations: epileptic seizures and chemotherapy
  • 11. Some epidemiology
  • 12. Survival analysis: retention of heroin addicts in methdone maintenance treatment
  • 13. Maximum likelihood estimation: age of onset of schizophrenia
  • 14. Principal components analysis: hearing measurement using an audiometer
  • 15. Cluster analysis: tibetan skulls and determinants of pollution in U.S. cities
  • Appendix: answers to selected exercises
  • References.