RE: st: STATA Vs. SAS

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

One reason  I don't use SAS is that I find data base management much easier 
in Stata than in SAS.

For us to tell you about limitations because of size, you'd have tell us 
just how big a "pretty big" database is. However size is rarely a problem 
in Stata, particularly for the type of analyses you indicate.

Fred Wolfe


At 01:17 PM 11/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:

> Thank you very much, guys.
>
> We are going to use the software (SAS or STATA) against a db2 database whose
> serve resides on a linux box. The database is pretty big. Our statistical
> analysis is going be simple. Most of the time, we only do the freqency
> distribution and logistic regression (both conditional and unconditional).
> Hope this will help you guys to help me out.
>
> Dewei
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Cox [mailto:n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 1:01 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: st: STATA Vs. SAS
>
>
> Laurel A Copeland, among many other comments, wrote
>
> > I find SAS much better for data management.  There are many ways to
> > approach each coding task; code can be optimized for
> > readability/teachability, or for brevity, or for
> > conservation of space or CPU time.
>
> and Richard Herrell similarly wrote
>
> > I continue to find Stata frustrating for data
> > management and prefer SAS's data step
> > capabilities.
>
> I think Stata's developers (and at least one user-programmer)
> would like to see specific suggestions of what
> is easier to do in SAS, to help influence
> the agenda.
>
> Sometimes -- but not always -- it turns out
> that the facilities exist; it is just not
> transparent how to use them.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
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