How to Use Stata for Health Research: A Practical Handbook with Exercises
this book provides an introduction to data science for students of any discipline with little or no background in data analysis or computer programming. based on notions of representation, measurement, and modeling, we examine key data types (e.g., logicals, numbers, text) and learn to clean, summarize, transform, and visualize (rectangular) data. by reflecting on the relations between representations, tasks, and tools, the course promotes data literacy and cultivates reproducible research practices that precede and enable practical uses of programming or statistics. this book is still being written and revised. it currently serves as a scaffold for a curriculum that will be filled with content as we go along. read more
An Introduction To Stata For Health Researchers 3rd Edpdf
an introduction to stata for health researchers 3rd edpdf this book provides an introduction to data science for students of any discipline with little or no background in data analysis or computer programming. based on notions of representation, measurement, and modeling, we examine key data types (e.g., logicals, numbers, text) and learn to clean, summarize, transform, and visualize (rectangular) data. by reflecting on the relations between representations, tasks, and tools, the course promotes data literacy and cultivates reproducible research practices that precede and enable practical uses of programming or statistics. this book is still being written and revised. it currently serves as a scaffold for a curriculum that will be filled with content as we go along. read more
the text has a thorough introduction to data exploration, probability, statistical distributions, and the foundations of inference, but less complete discussions of specific methods, including one- and two-sample inference, contingency tables, and linear and logistic regression. supposedly intended for introductory statistics courses at the high school through university levels, it's not clear where this text would fit in at my institution. it includes too much theory for our undergraduate service courses, but not enough practical details for our graduate-level service courses.