Rafael Gafoor is a Chartered Statistician at the Comprehensive CTU at University College London (UCL). Dr. Gafoor obtained both his master's degrees in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and his PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London). He has worked as a medical statistician as well as an epidemiologist. His research interests include epidemiology, clinical sciences, public health and health services and systems. Dr. Gafoor is a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS and has a keen interest in the analysis of datasets with Mental Health outcomes (from both observational as well as experimental studies).

Foreword

1. Introduction

2. Temporary names, variables and files

3. Macros and other data storage mechanisms used by Stata

4. Variables, variable names, value label names, value labels & values

5. Loops

6. Append, Merge & Collapse

7. Reshape

8. Dates

9. BITS & BOBS

10. Helpful hints when doing regression

11. Time series operators and survival analyses

12. Exporting output

13. Stata Programming

14. Tables of Baseline Characteristics

15. Automated Reporting

16. pretty_baseline package for easy tables

17. Tables with output from statistical tests