A Gentle Introduction to Stata

By A. Acock. 2005

577 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Happiness and Well-Being of Young Carers: Extent, Nature and Correlates of Caring Among 10 and 11 Year Old School Children (2013, background): “Values between 0.20 and 0.49 are considered moderate and values more than 0.50 are considered strong (Acock 2006). children aged 8–11 years in 13 countries3 but higher than the mean score for 8 to 11 year olds in the UK (47.55) and Ireland (48.92) (Ravens-Sieberer et al. 2010).”
Can You Really Measure That? Combining Critical Race Theory and Quantitative Methods (2018, methodology): “In this study, I use a threshold of structure coefficients greater than .40 (Acock, 2010) to assess the suitability of the items.”
Assessing the intention-behavior gap in electronic waste recycling: the case of Brazil (2017, methodology): “For each respondent, we generated a unique variable named intention by calculating the mean score of the items, following the procedure indicated in Acock (2008).”
Development of the reflective practice questionnaire: preliminary findings (2018, methodology): “Cronbach’s alpha is a widely used indicator of internal consistency among survey items, and Acock (2014) provides guidelines that values about 0.70 are ‘adequate’ and above 0.80 are ‘good’.”