Statistics with Stata : updated for version 9 / Lawrence C. Hamilton.

Author
Hamilton, Lawrence C. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Belmont, CA : Thomson/BrooksCole, ©2006.
Description
409 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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            Summary note
            "For students and practicing researchers alike, STATISTICS WITH STATA Version 12 opens the door to the full use of the popular Stata program--a fast, flexible, and easy-to-use environment for data management and statistics analysis. Integrating Stata's impressive graphics, this comprehensive book presents hundreds of examples showing how you can apply Stata to accomplish a wide variety of tasks. Like Stata itself, STATISTICS WITH STATA will make it easier for you to move fluidly through the world of modern data analysis."--Publisher's website.
            Bibliographic references
            Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-399) and index.
            Contents
            • Machine derived contents note: Stata and Stata Resources
            • A Typographical Note
            • An Example Stata Session 2
            • Stata's Documentation and Help Files
            • Searching for Information..
            • Stata Corporation
            • The Stata Journal 10
            • Books Using Stata. 1
            • Data Management 12
            • Example Commands 13
            • Creating a New Dataset 15
            • Specifying Subsets of the Data: in and f Qualifiers
            • Generating and Replacing Variables 23
            • Using Functions 27
            • Converting between Numeric and String Formats 32
            • Creating New Categorical and Ordinal Variables 35
            • Using Explicit Subscripts with Variables 38
            • Importing Data from Other Programs 39
            • Combining Two 0o More Stata Files 4
            • Transposing, Reshaping, or Collapsing Data 47
            • Weighting Observations 54
            • Creating Random Data and Random Samples 56
            • Writing Programs for Data Management. 60
            • Managing Memory 61
            • Graphs 64
            • Example Commands 65
            • Histograms 67
            • Scatterplots 72
            • Line Plots 77
            • ConnectedLine Plots 83
            • Other Twoway Plot Types ...
            • Box Plots 90
            • Pie Charts 92
            • Bar Charts 94
            • 12 Principal Components, Factor, and Cluster Ana 31
            • Example Commands .319
            • Principal Components ..3
            • Rotation 3 2. 322
            • Factor Scores 33
            • Principal Factoring .326
            • Maximum-Likelihood Factoring 327
            • Cluster Analysis
            • 1 329
            • 2 333
            • 13 Time Series Analysis 339
            • Example Commands 339
            • Smoothing 341
            • Further Time Plot Examples 346
            • Lags, Leads, and Differences 349
            • Correlograms .351
            • ARIMA Models 354
            • 14 Introduction to Programming
            • Basic Concepts and Tools 361
            • Example Program: Moving Autocorrelation 369
            • Ado-File 373
            • Help File 375
            • Matrix Algebra 378
            • Bootstrapping 382
            • Monte Carlo Simulation 387.
            ISBN
            • 049510972X ((pbk.))
            • 9780495109723 ((pbk.))
            LCCN
            2005933358
            OCLC
            62781022
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