Using Stata for Quantitative Analysis is a supplemental text for undergraduate and graduate level courses involving research methods and statistical analysis. The manual will be written so that a wide variety of fields that offer such courses would be able to adopt it. Instructors most likely to adopt would include sociology, political science, economics, and psychology. These fields share a relatively similar approach to quantitative analysis and are all part of the trend towards using Stata as their primary statistical program

Kycle C Longest proposes to teach the language of Stata from an intuitive perspective, furthering students' overall retention, allowing for a student with no experience in statistical software to be able to sit down and be working with data in a very short amount of time.

Features and Benefits:

@1 Stata screen shots provided throughout chapters to aid student comprehension

@! Examples of commands and procedures using real data from the General Social Survey will be provided.

@! 'A Closer Look' boxes (similar to Frankfort-Nachmias) will provide additional information on more advanced topics.

@! Self-teaching style will allow novice Stata users ability to complete a basic quantitative research project from start to finish.

@! Exercises at ends of chapters will have answers provided to help students master Stata