Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [371]-375) e índice CONTENIDO: "The first time". Starting Stata -- Setting up your screen -- Your first analysis -- Do-files -- Exiting Stata -- Exercises -- Working with do-files. From interactive work to working with a do-file -- Designing do-files -- Organizing your work -- Exercises -- The grammar of Stata. The elements of Stata commands -- Repeating similar commands -- Weights -- Exercises -- General comments on the statistical commands. Exercises -- Creating and changing variables. The commands generate and replace -- Specialized receding commands -- More tools for recoding data -- Commands for dealing with missing values -- Labels -- Storage types, or the ghost in the machine -- Exercises -- Creating and changing graphs. A primer on graph syntax -- Graph types -- Graph elements -- Multiple graphs --
Saving and printing graphs -- Exercises -- Describing and comparing distributions. Categories: Few or many? -- Variables with few categories -- Variables with many categories -- Exercises -- Introduction to linear regression. Simple linear regression -- Multiple regression -- Regression diagnostics -- Model extensions -- More on standard errors -- Advanced techniques -- Exercises -- 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 -- Exercises -- Reading and writing data. The goal: the data matrix -- Importing machine-readable data -- Inputting data -- Combining data -- Saving and exporting data --Handling large 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.
