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Understanding Political Science Statistics using Stata: A Manual with Exercises [Pehme köide]

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(University of California, San Diego, USA), (Lewis and Clark College, USA)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 176 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x187 mm, kaal: 340 g, 10 Tables, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 06-Apr-2015
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138850683
  • ISBN-13: 9781138850682
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 176 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x187 mm, kaal: 340 g, 10 Tables, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 06-Apr-2015
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  • ISBN-10: 1138850683
  • ISBN-13: 9781138850682
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This manual walks students through the procedures for analysis in Stata and provides exercises that go hand-in-hand with online data sets. The manual complements the textbook Understanding Political Science Statistics: Observations and Expectations in Political Analysis, by Peter Galderisi, making it easy to use alongside the book in a course or as a stand-alone guide to using Stata. Seljan demonstrates how to run commands in Stata for different kinds of research questions and shows the results of the analyses, using lots of annotated screenshots from Stata version 12 (but compatible with all versions, including Stata Small). Students will be guided through standard processes replete with examples and exercises to ready them for future work in political science research.

The diverse group of data sets provided include subsamples of both the 2008 and 2012 American National Election Studies, a Eurobarometer survey, single year and longitudinal congressional district files, the 2012 Comparative Congressional Election Study, and a comparative, crossnational country file. Versions with reduced case numbers and variables are also included that are compatible with Stata Small.

This manual (and a parallel SPSS manual) are available as stand-alone products or packaged with the textbook Understanding Political Science Statistics, and data sets are available at www.routledge.com/cw/galderisi.

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This manual walks students through all of the necessary components of using STATA to undertake social science research. From how to download and open a data file; to managing, coding and recoding data; as well as covering common syntax errors and providing political sciencefocused exercises to practice, this manual is a comprehensive resource for instructors. Thorough, easy to understand, and easy to reference, this is an excellent manual for undergraduate and first-year graduate students, as well as a useful reference for even the most seasoned STATA user. Suzanne Chod, North Central College

"Understanding Political Science Statistics Using Stata is an excellent, easy-to-understand, nuts-and-bolts introduction to Stata for political science undergraduate students. The guide particularly excels in its treatment and illustration of variable management and manipulation in Stata." Brian Fogarty, University of Missouri St. Louis

The pragmatic, problem-centric approach of Understanding Political Science Statistics is continued in this guide, a style which serves this volume excellently. Either as a stand-alone introduction to Stata or as a companion to the main textbook, Understanding Political Science Statistics Using Stata is clearly written and easy to follow. The varied real-world political science data used, as well as the material covered, will make this manual highly useful for political science students and instructors alike. Jack Reilly, New College of Florida

"This is a very good how-to manual covering applied data analysis, illustrating the use of both Stata commands and pull-down windows. The examples from both survey and aggregate data look at real research questions, including the use of sampling adjustments that are widely required today in survey data analysis, making this a great tool for students and researchers alike." Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia University

Acknowledgments vii
1 General Overview 1(14)
1.1 Introduction to Using Stata for Data Analysis
1(4)
Stata File Types
2(1)
Executing Procedures
2(1)
Application Overview
3(2)
1.2 First Steps
5(10)
Downloading Data Files
5(1)
Protecting Data Files
6(3)
Do-Files
9(1)
Log Files
10(1)
General Rules for Writing Code in Stata
11(3)
Accessing Help Files
14(1)
2 Setting Up Stata Data Files for Analysis 15(5)
2.1 Opening Data Files
15(2)
2.2 Weighting Sampled Data
17(3)
3 Data Management and Operationalization 20(27)
3.1 Variable Recoding: The Recode Command
20(12)
Sample Exercises 3.1
29(3)
3.2 Creating New Variables: The Generate Command
32(6)
Sample Exercises 3.2
36(2)
3.3 Generating New Variables Using Logical Expressions: "If" Statements
38(5)
Sample Exercises 3.3
41(2)
3.4 Useful Commands for Data Management
43(4)
Rename
43(1)
Variable Label
44(1)
Value Labels
44(2)
Dropping Variables
46(1)
4 Commonly Used Stata Commands for Data Analysis 47(60)
4.1 Frequencies
47(13)
Frequency Distribution Tables
47(5)
Bar Graphs
52(4)
Pie Charts
56(2)
Sample Exercises 4.1
58(2)
4.2 Summary Statistics
60(10)
Sample Exercises 4.2
68(2)
4.3 Comparison of Means Tests
70(11)
Form 1: One Sample, One Variable Tested against a Hypothesized Population Value
70(4)
Form 2: One Sample, Two Variables (Paired Samples—"Dependent" Test)
74(3)
Form 3: One Variable, Two Different Subsamples ("Independent Samples Test)
77(2)
Sample Exercises 4.3
79(2)
4.4 Crosstabulations
81(12)
Sample Exercises 4.4
90(3)
4.5 Linear Regression
93(16)
Plots
98(5)
Sample Exercises 4.5
103(4)
Appendix A: Editing Graphs 107(2)
Appendix B: Data Codebooks 109(58)
B1 ANES 2008 Codebook
110(14)
B2 ANES 2012 Codebook
124(14)
B3 Congress 2008 Codebook
138(3)
B4 Congress 2008-2012 Codebook
141(5)
B5 Eurobarometer 69:2 Codebook
146(7)
B6 CCES 2012 Codebook
153(10)
B7 CROSSNAT Codebook
163(4)
Appendix C: An Example of a Term-Wide Set of Computer Exercises—ANES2012A 167
Ellen C. Seljan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lewis & Clark College.

Peter Galderisi has taught political science methods and statistics for more than three decades, and is currently a lecturer and local internship director in the Political Science Department at the University of California, San Diego. Previously, Galderisi was a Professor or Visiting Professor at Utah State, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and Cal State Fullerton. He specializes in U.S. political parties, campaigns and elections, American political development, interest groups, and election law.