st: Data Management Using Stata: A Practical Handbook

[Michael Norman Mitchell <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Greetings

I am delighted to announce that my newest book, Data Management Using 
Stata: A Practical Handbook, will begin shipping on May 21, 2010. You 
can visit

http://www.stata.com/bookstore/dmus.html

to see more about the book including the table of contents, the front 
and back cover, and how to place an order. The price is $48 plus shipping.

Here is what the Stata technical group wrote about the book...

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Michael Mitchell’s Data Management Using Stata comprehensively covers 
data-management tasks, from those a beginning statistician would need to 
those hard-to-verbalize tasks that can confound an experienced user. 
Mitchell does this all in simple language with illustrative examples.

The book is modular in structure and based on data-management tasks 
rather than on clusters of commands. This format is helpful because it 
allow readers to find and read just what is needed to solve a problem at 
hand. To complement this format, the book is in a style that will teach 
even sporadic readers good habits in data management, even if the reader 
chooses to read chapters out of order.

One of the themes that runs through the book is the absolute necessity 
of reproducibility and an audit trail. This theme is emphasized 
subtly—instead of stressing programming esoterica, Mitchell reinforces 
simple habits and points out the time-savings of being careful. 
Mitchell’s experience in UCLA’s Academic Technology Services clearly 
drives much of his advice.

Mitchell includes advice for those who would like to learn to write 
their own data-management Stata commands. And even experienced users 
will learn new tricks and new ways to approach data-management problems.

This is a great book, thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in 
data management using Stata.
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Best regards,

Michael N. Mitchell
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http://www.MichaelNormanMitchell.com

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