An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers

Svend Juul is a former associate professor, now a part-time lecturer, in epidemiology at the School of Public Health, Aarhus University. Juul has extensive experience in teaching epidemiology to medical students and others and in teaching Stata and other computer programs to PhD students in the health sciences. Morten Frydenberg is a former associate professor of biostatistics at the Department of Public Health, Aarhus University. He has a PhD in theoretical statistics and more than 25 years of experience as a biostatistical consultant in health sciences. Frydenberg has taught numerous courses in applied biostatistics at both graduate and postgraduate levels. He now works as a private biostatistical consultant.

I The basics 1. Getting started 2. Getting help—and more 3. Command syntax II Data management 4. Variables 5. Getting data in and out of Stata 6. Adding explanatory text to data 7. Calculations 8. Commands affecting data structure 9. Taking good care of your data III Analysis 10. Description and simple analysis 11. Regression analysis 12. Time-to-event data 13. Power, precision, and sample-size analysis 14. Measurement and diagnosis 15. Miscellaneous IV Graphs 16. Graphs V Advanced topics 17. Advanced topics