1. A brief introduction to Stata -- 2. Data description and simple inference : female psychiatric patients -- 3. Multiple regression : determinants of pollution in U.S. cities -- 4. Analysis of variance I : treating hypertension -- 5. Analysis of variance II : effectiveness of slimming clinics -- 6. Logistic regression : treatment of lung cancer and diagnosis of heart attacks -- 7. Generalized linear models : Australian school children -- 8. Summary measure analysis of longitudinal data : the treatment of post-natal depression -- 9. Random effects models : though disorder and schizophrenia -- 10. Generalized estimating equations : epileptic seizures and chemotherapy -- 11. Some epidemiology -- 12. Survival analysis : retention of heroin addicts in metadone maintenance treatment -- 13. Maximum likelihood estimation : age of onset of schizophrenia -- 14. Principal components analysis : hearing measurement using an audiometer -- 15. Cluster analysis : Tibetan skulls and air pollution in the USA.