Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using Stata, Fourth Edition

Fully updated, the fourth edition of this highly acclaimed and perpetually bestselling text demonstrates how a wide variety of statistical analyses, including descriptive statistics, graphics, and model estimation and diagnostics, can be performed using Stata version 9. The authors present many of Stata's novel features, including a new mixed-models estimation command and a new matrix language. This edition also contains additional exercises that use various data sets and numerous examples of real-life data, enabling a better understanding of the methodology. The book offers selected solutions in an appendix as well as a solutions manual with qualifying course adoptions.