Re: st: textbooks for a statistics course

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 01:00 PM 7/26/2006, Hyojoung Kim wrote:
> Dear Stataliers,
>
> This query is not specific to Stata, but I'd like to have your
> recommendations on textbooks for my statistics course. The course will cover
> OLS regression, Probit/Logit, Ordered Regression, Multinomial Regression,
> Tobit Analysis for the audience of advanced undergraduate and graduate
> students with rather weak mathematical background. Too technical a book
> would not be appropriate for this group of audience. Ideal would be a book
> that addresses basic computational procedures, interpretations, and
> assumptions of each of the above regressions. Any suggestion is highly
> appreciated.
>
> Hyojoung Kim
We had a similar discussion a few weeks ago.  See the thread that starts here

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-06/msg00960.html

and continues into the next month here:

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-07/msg00008.html

Note that it sort of got off track but did occasionally get back to 
the original subject!


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