An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers, Fifth Edition

Svend Juul and Morten Frydenberg’s An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers, Fifth Edition updates their classic book that has become a standard reference for health researchers everywhere. It teaches readers how to work in Stata effectively and how to perform statistical analyses that are foundational to those performing health research.

The new edition includes features added to Stata versions 14, 15, 16, and 17. These new features include Stata's icd9 and icd10 commands for managing data with codes from the 9th and 10th releases of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9 and ICD-10), how to use Unicode characters, how to create customizable tables using the new collect and tables commands in Stata 17, and much more. The authors even added a new chapter devoted to power, precision, and sample-size analysis, including simulation methods.