Stata Bookstore: An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers, Fifth Edition
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The authors explain the different kinds of variables used to store numbers, strings, and dates and show how to work with missing values. Importantly, this section ends with the authors providing advice on the best practices for naming variables, files, and folders; organizing your work; and protecting your data. Next the authors focus on a variety of methods used to analyze time-to-event data, including Kaplan&endash;Meier curves, life tables, Cox proportional hazards models, and Poisson regression. This section concludes with a discussion of diagnosis and comparison of measurements, including estimation of sensitivity and specificity and how to plot receiver-operating characteristic curves. Juul and Frydenberg provide a thorough introduction to Statas graphics features and show you how to customize your graphs and export them for publication.
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