Data Analysis Using Stata, Third Edition

Easy to understand examples of the best parts of Stata. Would be five stars if publisher had included version 13, a version that has made profound progress in interpreting regression modeling.

Highly recommended for new users and as a desk reference for those more familiar with STATA. It can read like a book and allows a new user to slowly learn the system. No programming experience required to understand the content. Probably the best all around STATA book I have seen.

Excellent quality for a good price! This is a book that I will be able to use for years to come.

Me ayudaron los do files en trabajos de investigación.

A very good guide to Stata. It is not a statistics text but it is a good way to put your hands on it.

my book came without a cover!!!!

It's right next to my desk :)

Kohler and Kreuter's third editon of "Data Analysis Using Stata", is 497 pages in length and ispublished only in paperback form. It is the most recent publication in the series of texts on statisticspublished by Stata Press. Stata is a well-used general-purpose commercial statistical application, andits series of books on statistics have been popular among both Stata users and others who are simplyinterested in the subject matter of a book in the Series. In fact, many of the Series books can bethought of as texts on a particular area of statistics --- using Stata for examples. Othersare more Stata-specific, eg. books dealing with Stata programming, graphics, or datamanagement. Kohler and Kreuter's text is of the latter variety. On the other hand, many of the dataanalytic principles discussed in the book are applicable to data management in general, so haveapplication beyond a particular software application. Moreover, the author's discuss more than just howto manage data; they do so with respect to the preparation of graphics, and managing bothdescriptive and inferential statistics.Although a number of data sets are used for examples in the text, most examples relate to the 5411 observationGerman Socioeconometric Panel data, a survey of German households containing demographic, income, employment,and other similar type information. The author's guide the reader on setting up the data for varioustypes of analysis and for using Stata's graphical interace facilities. Stata code for all examples isprovided, and explained in detail. The reader gains an ability to use Stata for data management, graphicalsetup and analysis, as well as model setup and testing.I should also mention that the book includes a chapter on creating Stata do and ado files. "do" filesare simply batch files -- what are called 'scripts' in R and 'macro's' in SAS. "ado" files are"automatic do files" or "commands", which are similar to R functions. The majority of the official commercialStata pacakge is programmed using Stata commands. Commands authored by Stata users look the same as thoseauthored by Stata developers. Stata also consists of binary code, but much of it is in terms of commands,many of which were originally contributed by users.finally, I should also say something more about Stata Press, which gives an insight into the various booksin the Series, including the text of this review. The Series began as a single text in 1999 authored byStata staff on maximum likelihood estimation using Stata. The remainder of the Series began in 2001 withthe publication of a user-authored text on Generalized Linear Models. Eleven years later there are 20 separatetitles in the Series, which includes one text in French and another in Korean. Many of the texts havemultiple editions. In total, with the publication of Kohler and Kreuter's third edition text, Stata Presshas published 40 books in the Series. Nine more separate-title books are scheduled to be published by theend of 2013.I highly recommend this book for anyone who has an interest in data management, in particular to Statausers who must also manipulate data as part of job.

Very comprehensive and easy to follow.

Highliy recommended.

For those (un)fortunate enough to have to learn to use STATA, this is the book. While the build-in help in STATA is good, this book explains beyond that.

sehr gut, und die Lieferung auch sehr schnell.