Data Services: Stata

A supplemental text for undergraduate and graduate level courses involving research methods and statistical analysis. Kyle Longest teaches the language of Stata from an intuitive perspective, enabling those with no experience in statistical software to work with data in a very short amount of time.

Providing a comprehensive introduction to Stata with an emphasis on data management, linear regression, and using programs to automate repetitive tasks, the authors make extensive use of examples using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, a large survey of households containing demographic, income, employment, and other key information.

In a world in which we are constantly surrounded by data, figures, and statistics, it is imperative to understand and to be able to use quantitative methods. Statistical models and methods are among the most important tools in economic analysis, decision-making and business planning. This textbook, "Exploratory Data Analysis in Business and Economics", aims to familiarise students of economics and business as well as practitioners in firms with the basic principles, techniques, and applications of descriptive statistics and data analysis. Drawing on practical examples from business settings, it demonstrates the basic descriptive methods of univariate and bivariate analysis. The textbook covers a range of subject matter, from data collection and scaling to the presentation and univariate analysis of quantitative data, and also includes analytic procedures for assessing bivariate relationships. It does not confine itself to presenting descriptive statistics, but also addresses the use of computer programmes such as Excel, SPSS, and STATA, thus treating all of the topics typically covered in a university course on descriptive statistics. The German edition of this textbook is one of the "bestsellers" on the German market for literature in statistics.