TY - BOOK AU - Acock,Alan C. TI - A gentle introduction to Stata SN - 9781597182690 U1 - 005.55 PY - 2018/// CY - College Station, Texas PB - StataCorp LLC KW - Stata KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - fast KW - Social sciences KW - Statistics KW - Computer programs KW - Statistical methods KW - Graphic methods KW - Statistics as Topic KW - Automatic Data Processing KW - Computer Graphics KW - Handbooks and manuals KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-554) and indexes; Getting started -- Entering data -- Preparing data for analysis -- Working with commands, do-files, and results -- Descriptive statistics and graphs for one variable -- Statistics and graphs for two categorical variables -- Tests for one or two means -- Bivariate correlation and regression -- Analysis of variance -- Multiple regression -- Logistic regression -- Measurement, reliability, and validity -- Structural equation and generalized structural equation modeling -- Working with missing values - mulitple imputation -- An introduction to multilevel analysis -- Item response theory (IRT) -- What's next? ER -