Dear all,
In my experience, Stata is much more flexible and powere in terms of data
management.
1: For merging or adding (appending) data, both SPSS and Stata work
fine but Stata's _merge is very useful.
2: Stata works much better (gracefully) with hierarchical data structures.
3: Stata's egen, _n, _N, reshape, bysort, gsort etc are fantastic for many
purposes.
On the whole, I find Stata much better than SPSS in both data
management and statistical modelling. The only thing I have found useful in
SPSS but lacking in Stata is SPSS's loop structures which Stata's egen
functions do not fully cover.
This is my opinion but I may be wrong.
Best wishes
Yours Yaojun
On 9 May 03, at 14:14, Richard Goldstein wrote:
For anyone who is knowledgeable about SPSS -- just be
sure to reply to either the newsgroup or to the original
sender -- Rich
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Stata compared to SPSS for data management???
Date: 9 May 2003 10:03:31 -0700
From: [email protected] (Alan Acock)
Newsgroups: sci.stat.edu
We are considering switching from SPSS to Stata as our primary software
package for training graduate students. Can anybody tell me the
limitations/strengths of Stata for data management compared to SPSS. I'm
interested in merging many datasets and in constructing variables,
counts,
means, etc. SPSS' count command and mean.n command are very useful. Does
Stata have an equivalent?
Alan C. Acock
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.orst.edu/dept/hdfs/acock/
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