Ulrich Kohler is a sociologist at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Dr. Kohler is an organizer of the German Stata Users Group meetings. Frauke Kreuter is an associate professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) at the University of Maryland-College Park, professor in the Statistics Department at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, and head of the Statistical Methods group at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, Germany. Both authors are associate editors of the Stata Journal. They coauthored a German textbook, Datenanalyse mit Stata, which was the predecessor of this book. They used Data Analysis Using Stata to teach several classes and short courses at the University of Mannheim, the University of Konstanz, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of California-Los Angeles.

The First Time. Working with Do-Files. The Grammar of Stata. General Comments on the Statistical Commands. Creating and Changing Variables. Creating and Changing Graphs. Describing and Comparing Distributions. Statistical Inference. Introduction to Linear Regression. Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables. Reading and Writing Data. Do-Files for Advanced Users and User-Written Programs. Around Stata. References. Indices.