Titolo: A Stata COMPANION to Polytical Analysis
Product Details
Paperback: 217 pages
Publisher: CQ Press (May 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0-87289-305-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-87289-305-4
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
| Price: | $42.50 |
Product Description
With a robust statistical package and eye-catching graphics Stata is fast becoming the statistical program of choice for political scientists. For speed, versatility, comprehensiveness, and ease-of-use, Stata is hard to beat. It can be a little daunting for beginning students, but no longer. Philip Pollock's accessible introduction to the program offers students a step-by-step tutorial, leading them through descriptive statistics, cross-tabulation analysis, mean comparisons, linear correlation and regression (including dummy variables and interaction effects), and logistic regression--all tailored to political science material. With over 40 carefully crafted exercises and generous use of annotated screenshots, students will be navigating Stata's graphics routines in no time. Ten feature boxes highlight some of Stata's special capabilities while a concluding chapter provides guidance on how to set up a research project, as well as how to use Stata to read raw data.
Students will be amazed at what they can do as they work through chapters. Graphics capabilities that allow a user to create effective visual displays ranging from elementary but elegant histograms to sophisticated comparisons of logistic regression curves are a major attraction of Stata and are put to effective use in this one-of-a-kind workbook.
Paired with a traditional methods text, this companion volume equips students to analyze real political science research and comes complete with a CD-ROM that includes four customized datasets: two individual-level survey datasets (200 variables from the 2004 National Election Study and 150 variables from the 2002 General Social Survey), and two datasets containing aggregate-level variables on the fifty states and on 114 nations of the world.
About the Author
Philip H. Pollock III received a PhD from the University of Minnesota and is professor of political science at the University of Central Florida. He has taught courses in research methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels for over twenty-five years. His main research interests are American public opinion, voting behavior, and interest groups. His recent research has been on the effectiveness of Internet-based teaching. His research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Political Science Education. Pollock is also the co-author of a book on the role of political action committees in congressional elections.
Comment from the Stata technical group
Philip Pollock’s A Stata Companion to Political Analysis can guide you whether you are teaching or taking your first political science course. The book will teach you how to control Stata with either the command line or the graphical user interface—whichever mode fits the task. Pollock also surveys the statistical methods that professional political scientists use. His treatment of research methods deftly incorporates data management, graphical analysis, and statistics into the political science domain. The book's thorough examples show how to complete each task with Stata while giving firsthand experience in political research.
