A Gentle Introduction to Stata

Had extensive experience with other programming (C#, VB, ASP.NET, SQL, Perl) languages as well as SAS. The material in this book provides an easy transition from any of those to Stata.

Indispensible adjunct to my biostat classes where the professors never have time to teach stata but expect us to use it for assignments. The examples used are easy to understand. There are brief explanation on the abbreviations of commands. More than a technical book on stata commands, the explanation on statiscal tests are very helpful for beginners.

This is the book I have been waiting for! It assumes no prior knowledge of STATA and goes step-by-step through practical exercises that a person handling data would need to do in everyday work. This book would have helped me a ton during my graduate courses, as I did not have any formal introduction to STATA and pieced together commands from various books and websites. Thank you, Alan Acock and STATA Press, for recognizing that not everyone is innately adept at programming. If you are a beginner or find yourself spinning your wheels with commands, this book is what you need.

As a PhD student,I found this book quite usefull.This book is great and easy to read.It gives you as much as you need in shortest time.If you don't have enough experince using statistical softwares such as R or SAS or any other advanced packages this book would be very helpful.