StataQuest 4 Windows 95 Version

, by J. Theodore Anagnoson; Richard Edward DeLeon

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ISBN: 9780534521370 | 0534521371
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/28/1997

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A perfect complement to any first or second course in statistics, this professionally developed software is a powerful yet inexpensive means for helping students analyze statistical problems easily. StataQuest offers high-resolution graphics, a custom-designed menu, and a spreadsheet-like data entry system. In addition to the software and more than 60 data files, the StataQuest 4 package also contains and easy-to-understand documentation guide.

Getting Started

(19)

What is Stata Quest

(1)

Requirements and Limits

(2)

Installing, Starting, and Stopping Stata Quest

(2)

Configuring Stata Quest to Your Preferences

(4)

Basic Rules---Windows

(4)

Basic Rules---DOS

(1)

Getting Help

(1)

How to Place Results Window Text in Your Word Processor

(1)

How to Print Your Work

(1)

Printing Stata Quest Graphs

(1)

Telling the Difference Among Stata Quest's Files

(1)

Stata Quest's Utilities

(1)

Structure of a Typical Stata Quest Session

(1)

What is Really Happening When You Choose Commands From Stata Quest's Menus?

(1)

What's Next?

(1)

Exercises

(1)

Data

Entering Data into Stata Quest

(16)

The StataQuest Editor.

(1)

Inputting Your Own Data Through the StataQuest Editor

(6)

Inputting Your Own Data Through External (Text) Files

(1)

Creating Random Variables

(2)

Stata Files

(1)

Spreadsheet and Statistical Package Files

(1)

Labeling Your Data

(2)

Renaming Variables

(1)

Sorting

(1)

Exiting the Editor

(1)

Exercises

(2)

Modifying Your Data

(18)

Why Change Data?

(1)

Changing Cell Contents

(3)

Adding Variables or Observations

(2)

Deleting Variables or Observations

(1)

Formulas and Functions

(4)

Recoding Data

(3)

Subsetting Data

(3)

Exercises

(1)

Summarizing and Examining Your Data

(15)

The Basics of Data Analysis

(1)

What Is in a Data Set?

(6)

Basic Statistics

(7)

Exercises

(2)

Tables: Frequency Distributions and Cross-Tabulations

(11)

What are Frequencies and Cross Tabulations?

(1)

Frequency Distributions

(2)

Cross-Tabulation

(4)

Cross-Tabulation by the Categories of a Third Variable

(2)

Exercises

(2)

Graphs

Histograms and Normal Quantile Plots

(16)

Graphs for Studying the Shapes of Distributions

(1)

Histograms in DOS versus Windows

(1)

Continuous Variable Histograms

(7)

Discrete Variable Histograms

(1)

Continuous Variable Histograms by Group

(2)

Discrete Variable Histograms by Group

(1)

Normal Quantile Plots

(2)

Exercises

(2)

Stem-and-Leaf Plots and Dot Plots

(15)

Ways to Graph and See Your Data

(1)

Stem-and-Leaf Plots

(8)

Dot Plots

105

(3)

Saving and Printing

108

(2)

Exercises

110

(1)

Box Plots and Box and One-Way Plots

111

(12)

Graphs for Seeing Both Forest and Trees

111

(1)

Box Plots

112

(2)

Box Plot and One-Way Plot

114

(1)

Box Plot by Group

115

(2)

Box Plot Comparisons of Different Variables

117

(2)

Box Plot and One-Way Plot Comparisons

119

(3)

Exercises

122

(1)

Bar Charts

123

(11)

How Much? Graphs for Comparing Variables and Groups

123

(1)

Bar Charts: Totals and Means

124

(1)

Bar Charts by Group

124

(2)

Bar Chart Comparisons

126

(3)

Bar Chart Comparisons by Group

129

(4)

Exercises

133

(1)

Scatter Plots

134

(16)

What are Scatter Plots?

134

(3)

Plot Y vs. X

137

(1)

Plot Y vs. X, Naming Points

138

(2)

Plot Y vs. X, with Regression Line

140

(2)

Plot Y vs. X, Scale Symbols to Z

142

(1)

Plot Y vs. X, by Group

143

(2)

Scatter Plot Matrix

145

(3)

Exercises

148

(2)

Time Series Plots

150

(11)

Graphing Trends and Change

150

(1)

Plot Y vs. X

151

(2)

Plot More than One Y vs. X (without Scaling Option)

153

(1)

Plot More than One Y vs. X (with Scaling Option)

154

(1)

Plot Y vs. Obs. No.

155

(2)

Plot More than One Y vs. Obs. No.

157

(2)

Exercises

159

(2)

Quality Control Charts

161

(11)

What Are Quality Control Charts?

161

(1)

Control (C) Chart for Defects

162

(2)

Fraction Defective (P) Charts

164

(1)

X-Bar Charts

164

(3)

Range (R) Charts

167

(1)

X-Bar + R Charts

168

(3)

Exercise

171

(1)

Statistical Tests

Parametric Tests

172

(18)

What are Parametric Tests?

172

(1)

One-Sample t-Test

172

(6)

Two-Sample t-Test

178

(2)

Paired t-Test

180

(1)

One-Sample and Two-Sample Tests of Variance

180

(2)

Testing for Normality

182

(2)

One-Sample Test of Proportion

184

(3)

Two-Sample Test of Proportions

187

(1)

Exercises

188

(2)

Nonparametric Tests

190

(14)

What Are Nonparametric Tests?

190

(1)

Sign Test

190

(4)

Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test

194

(2)

Mann-Whitney Test

196

(1)

Kruskal-Wallis Equality of Populations Test

197

(2)

Kolmogorov-Smirnov Tests

199

(2)

Summary

201

(1)

Exercises

202

(2)

The Statistical Calculator

204

(22)

What's a Statistical Calculator?

204

(1)

One-Sample Normal Test

204

(2)

Two-Sample Normal Test

206

(1)

One-Sample t-Test

207

(1)

Two-Sample t-Test

208

(2)

One-Sample Test of Proportion

210

(3)

Two-Sample Test of Proportion

213

(2)

One-Sample and Two-Sample Test of Variance

215

(1)

Confidence Interval for the Mean

215

(2)

Binomial Confidence Interval

217

(2)

Poisson confidence Interval

219

(1)

Statistical Tables (Normal, Student's-t, F, Chi-Squared) Binomial, Poisson)

219

(2)

Inverse Statistical Tables (Normal, Student's-t, F, Chi-Squared) (Windows Only)

221

(1)

Standard Calculator

222

(1)

RPN Calculator (Windows Only)

223

(1)

Checking a Cross-Tabulation Printed in a Book

224

(1)

Exercises

224

(2)

Correlation, Regression & ANOVA

Correlation

226

(9)

The Meaning of Correlation

226

(1)

Pearson Correlation Coefficient

227

(3)

Spearman Correlation Coefficient

230

(3)

Exercises

233

(2)

Simple Regression

235

(17)

Modeling Two-Variable Linear Relationships

235

(1)

Simple Regression

236

(5)

Post-Regression Diagnostics

241

(9)

Exercises

250

(2)

Multiple Regression

252

(16)

Ordinary Regression with Two or More X Variables

252

(1)

Multiple Regression and Regression Diagnostics

253

(4)

Stepwise Regression with Forward or Backward Selection

257

(3)

Using the fit Command to Obtain AV Plots and Influence Statistics

260

(4)

Robust Regression

264

(2)

Exercises

266

(2)

Logistic Regression (Windows Only)

268

(12)

What Is Logistic Regression?

268

(1)

The Logistic Regression Model and Assumptions

269

(3)

Using SQ's Logistic Regression: An Example

272

(5)

Graphing the Results

277

(2)

Exercises

279

(1)

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

280

(13)

StataQuest's ANOVA Command

280

(1)

Nonparametric Analysis of Variance

280

(2)

One-Way ANOVA

282

(3)

Two-Way ANOVA

285

(2)

Repeated Measures ANOVA

287

(3)

N-Factor ANOVA & ANOCOVA

290

(2)

Exercises

292

(1)

Appendix A: StataQuest's Functions

293

(4)

Bibliographh

297

(3)

Index

300

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