{"id":123,"date":"2013-01-17T19:40:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T03:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/stata-9-for-the-casual-statistics-user\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:26:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T23:26:37","slug":"stata-9-for-the-casual-statistics-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/stata-9-for-the-casual-statistics-user\/","title":{"rendered":"STATA 9 for the Casual Statistics User"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STATA 9 is a statistical package commonly used for biostatistical applications. It is used more in universities than in industry. STATA is quickly growing in popularity, and version 9 is the latest attempt to topple SAS from its biostatistical pedestal. STATA 9 is extremely user-friendly, yet powerful as well.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nPeople who need statistical software but not the services of a statistician will find STATA quite useful. Provided you have a basic knowledge of statistics, the drop-down menus are extremely easy to navigate, even if you do not have a manual to consult. It is fairly easy to learn how to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stata.com\/stata9\/\">STATA 9<\/a>, and it is quite useful and powerful. STATA 9 is not perfect; it is not as powerful as SAS, and it still has design flaws. However, STATA 9 is the hands-down best choice for the casual statistics user. It is well-suited to people who need to complete a simple statistics project that is outside the scope of Microsoft Excel. Anyone who has taken an introductory statistics class should be able to use STATA 9 with relative ease. If you need to do some simple statistical analysis quickly and easily, consider using STATA 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATA 9 is a statistical package commonly used for biostatistical applications. It is used more in universities than in industry. STATA is quickly growing in popularity, and version 9 is the latest attempt to topple SAS from its biostatistical pedestal. STATA 9 is extremely user-friendly, yet powerful as well. People who need statistical software but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}