A Stata Companion to Politcal Analysis with CDROM
Philip H., III Pollock,
Publisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 0872893057
DDC: 320
Edition: Paperback; 2006-05-30
Summary:
With a robust statistical package and eye-catching graphics Stata is
fast becoming the statistical program of choice for political
scientists. For speed, versatility, comprehensiveness, and
ease-of-use, Stata is hard to beat. It can be a little daunting for
beginning students, but no longer. Philip Pollock's accessible
introduction to the program offers students a step-by-step tutorial,
leading them through descriptive statistics, cross-tabulation
analysis, mean comparisons, linear correlation and regression
(including dummy variables and interaction effects), and logistic
regression--all tailored to political science material. With over 40
carefully crafted exercises and generous use of annotated
screenshots, students will be navigating Stata's graphics routines in
no time. Ten feature boxes highlight some of Stata's special
capabilities while a concluding chapter provides guidance on how to
set up a research project, as well as how to use Stata to read raw
data. Students will be amazed at what they can do as they work
through chapters. Graphics capabilities that allow a user to create
effective visual displays ranging from elementary but elegant
histograms to sophisticated comparisons of logistic regression curves
are a major attraction of Stata and are put to effective use in this
one-of-a-kind workbook. Paired with a traditional methods text, this
companion volume equips students to analyze real political science
research and comes complete with a CD-ROM that includes four
customized datasets: two individual-level survey datasets (200
variables from the 2004 National Election Study and 150 variables
from the 2002 General Social Survey), and two datasets containing
aggregate-level variables on the fifty states and on 114 nations of
the world.
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