TY - JOUR AU1 - Hansen, John AB - Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials An Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata (rev.). University instructors in need of a book to support classroom instruction of introductory statistics may be well served by the fourth edition of Green and Mario A. CLEVES, William W. GOULD, and Roberto G. GUTIERREZ. Col- Salkind. This book provides a wealth of answers to the many questions that lege Station, TX: Stata Press, 2004, xx + 308 pp., $52.00 (P), ISBN: 1- first-year graduate students ask. I have found previous editions to be a fine 881228-84-3. resource for both the lecture and lab of my introductory course, Intermediate In the Preface, the authors state that “this is a book for researchers who want Statistics for the Social Sciences. to understand what they are doing and to understand the underpinnings and The strength of this book comes from the applied approach to answering assumptions of the tools they use.” These goals are rather substantial, but are the pragmatic questions associated with the beginner’s often overwhelming in- admirably met. As the title suggests, this is a book about doing survival analysis troduction to statistical methodology. For example, students may be interested using the software package Stata. TI - Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh: Analyzing and Understanding Data JF - The American Statistician DO - 10.1198/tas.2005.s139 DA - 2005-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/using-spss-for-windows-and-macintosh-analyzing-and-understanding-data-FVbDw0b2St SP - 113 EP - 113 VL - 59 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -