For students and practicing researchers alike, STATISTICS WITH STATA Version 12 opens the door to the full use of the popular Stata program--a fast, flexible, and easy-to-use environment for data management and statistics analysis. Integrating Stata's impressive graphics, this comprehensive book presents hundreds of examples showing how you can apply Stata to accomplish a wide variety of tasks. Like Stata itself, STATISTICS WITH STATA will make it easier for you to move fluidly through the world of modern data analysis.

Author Biography

Dr. Hamilton received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1978. He has taught statistics courses from undergraduate to advanced graduate levels at the University of New Hampshire and has written numerous statistics texts and software manuals, including MODERN DATA ANALYSIS, REGRESSION WITH GRAPHICS, and DATA ANALYSIS FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS. These books take an applied, data-oriented approach to understanding statistical methods and the analytical process. Dr. Hamilton's current research concerns climate change and environment-society interactions in the Arctic.