An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers

An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers, Fifth Edition updates this classic book that has become a standard reference for health researchers. An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers, Fifth Edition updates this classic book that has become a standard reference for health researchers. As with previous editions, readers will learn to work effectively in Stata to perform data management, compute descriptive statistics, create meaningful graphs, fit regression models, and perform survival analysis. The fifth edition adds examples of performing power, precision, and sample-size analysis; working with Unicode characters; managing data with ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes; and creating customized tables. With many worked examples and downloadable datasets, this text is the ideal resource for hands-on learning, whether for students in a statistics course or for researchers in fields such as epidemiology, biostatistics, and public health who are learning to use Stata's tools for health research.

This book focuses on the analyses used most often in health research. It covers various graph types, calculation commands, commands to modify data set structure, simple analyses of categorical and continuous variables, regression models, incidence and survival analysis, and measurement and diagnosis. This edition encompasses several of the new features in Stata 10, such as the Graph Editor and date-and-time variables, as well as a new section with exercises. The author stresses the importance of good documentation habits to prevent errors and wasting time. He also provides robust examples with downloadable data sets on the book’s website.