Thirty Years with Stata: A Retrospective
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By: Enrique Pinzon (editor) Publisher: Stata Press Copyright: 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1-59718-172-3 Pages: 147; paperback
This volume is a sometimes serious and sometimes whimsical retrospective of Stata, its development, and its use over the last 30 years.
The view from the inside opens with an essay by Bill Gould, Stata's president and cofounder, that discusses the challenges and concepts that guided the design and implementation of Stata. This is followed by an interview of Bill by Joe Newton that discusses Bill's early interest in computing, his early work on a program for matching prom dates in the days when you had to purchase time on computers, and further exploration of the guiding principles behind Stata. Finally, Sean Becketti, Stata's first employee, delves into the not-to-be-missed culture of Stata in its infancy.
The view from the outside comprises 14 essays by prominent researchers and members of the Stata community. Most discuss Stata's use and evolution in disciplines such as behavioral sciences, business, economics, epidemiology, time series, political science, public health, public policy, veterinary epidemiology, and statistics. Some take a sweeping overview. Others are more intimate personal recollections.
Mostly, we simply wanted to celebrate the relationship between Stata users and Stata software. This volume holds something interesting for everyone.
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W. Gould
H.J. Newton
2.2 Learning computing skills
2.3 The CRC
2.4 The arrival of Bill Rogers on the scene
2.5 The birth of ado-files
2.6 The move to Texas
2.7 How new Stata features happen
2.8 The Stata Journal
2.9 Modern StataCorp
S. Becketti
S. Becketti
4.2 Stata, then and now
4.3 Time-series analysis, then and now
4.4 Rocket science, then and now
4.5 Plus ça change
4.6 About the author
L. Hamilton
5.2 A brief history
5.3 Examples in Statistics with Stata
5.4 Future editions
5.5 About the author
S. J. W. Evans and P. Royston
6.2 Epidemiology and Stata
6.3 The future
6.4 About the authors
I. R. Dohoo
7.2 Development of quantitative veterinary epidemiology
7.3 Distinctive aspects of veterinary epidemiology
7.4 Use of Stata in veterinary epidemiology
7.5 About the author
M. Pagano
8.2 Teaching the course
8.2.2 Inference
8.2.3 Probability
8.2.4 Data quality
8.4 Acknowledgments
8.5 About the author
T. Sahr
9.2 Stata distributed to Ohio counties
9.3 Local public health analytical personnel disparity
9.4 Training partnership with Stata
9.5 Scope of trainings partnership
9.6 Impact of the trainings
9.7 Future goals
9.8 About the author
P. A. Lachenbruch
10.2 My career using Stata
10.3 About the author
S. P. Jenkins
11.2 The credibility revolution in public policy analysis
11.3 A broader view of what counts as valuable public policy analysis
11.4 What is it about Stata?
11.5 Acknowledgments
11.6 About the author
A. C. Cameron
12.2 Regression and Stata
12.3 Empirical research and Stata
12.4 About the author
D. Christodoulou
13.2 Data on software citations and impact
13.3 Earning market share
13.3.2 Interface and code overhaul
13.3.3 Longitudinal panel-data analysis
13.3.4 Time-series analysis
13.3.5 Other key methods
13.5 Conclusion
13.6 About the author
A. Appendix
G. D. Whitten and C. Wimpy
14.2 Acknowledgment
14.3 About the authors
S. Soldz
15.2 Choosing Stata
15.3 About the author
N. J. Cox
16.2 Californian creation
16.3 Texan transpose
16.4 Onwards and upwards
16.5 Pervasive principles
16.6 Acknowledgments
16.7 About the author
