Biostatistics in Public Health Using STATA PDF

Preface

This book is intended to serve as a guide to applied statistical analysis in public health using the Stata program. Our motivation for writing this book lies in our years of experience teaching biostatistics and epidemiology, particularly in the academic programs of biostatistics and epidemiology. The academic material is usually covered in biostatistics courses at the master’s and doctoral levels at schools of public health. The main focus of this book is the application of statistics in public health. Because of its user-friendliness, we used the Stata software package in the creation of the database and the statistical analysis that will be seen herein. This 12-chapter book can serve equally well as a textbook or as a source for consultation. Readers will be exposed to the following topics: Basic Commands, Data Description, Graph Construction, Significance Tests, Linear Regression Models, Analysis of Variance, Categorical Data Analysis, Logistic Regression Model, Poisson Regression Model, Survival Analysis, Analysis of Correlated Data, and Advanced Programming in Stata. Each chapter is based on one or more research problems linked to public health. We have started with the assumption that the readers of this book have taken at least a basic course in biostatistics and epidemiology. Further, for those readers who are new to Stata, the first three chapters should be read sequentially, as they form the basis of an introductory course to this software.