My first statistics course primarily consisted of plugging numbers into formulas. I did not leave that course with any real idea of how statistics differed from basic algebra. The next course I took is what put it all together, and I’ve loved statistics ever since. In that course, we examined the relationships between a population and its samples. I learned that using just a small amount of data, statistics enables us to make inferences about the entire population. Now that is cool! Read more…
Stata Press is pleased to announce the release of Microeconometrics Using Stata, Second Edition, Volumes I and II, by A. Colin Cameron and Pravin K. Trivedi. This book not only debuted as Kindle’s #1 New Release but also immediately ranked high on Kindle’s competitive best-seller lists in categories such as Statistics, Microeconomics, Econometrics & Statistics, Education Software, Education Statistics, and Mathematical & Statistical. Read more…
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Stata Press is pleased to announce the release of Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, Volumes I and II, Fourth Edition by Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Anders Skrondal. This book debuted on the top 10 list for Kindle’s new releases for Probability & Statistics and consistently stayed there for weeks. This book was also on the top 10 list for Kindle’s new releases in Mathematics, competing with many other books. Read more…
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