Re: st: Stata for Pocket PC?

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

Peter Jepsen wrote:

> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I'm about to buy a Pocket PC, and I'm thinking that it would be really 
> great
> if it could run Stata. Is that possible? And if not (which I suspect, 
> as the
> Stata website does not say anything about Pocket PC), does anyone know
> whether it will be?
I did my best, over dinner, a year or two ago, to convince Bill Gould 
that a statistics package for the Palm was the obvious development. And 
Stata has an ideal architecture to do it, since a user could install a 
basic Stata engine and then the ados they wanted to use, in the way 
that, say, MetrO users download the transport networks they need.

Memory and speed on PDAs are increasing to the point where serious 
statistics would be possible. Certainly, a basic version of Stata that 
did the sorts of routine data manipulations and statistics that Stata 1 
did would be a boon on PDA. I take my Palm and folding keyboard 
everywhere, and do most of my work on it, but have to lug my laptop with 
me when there are statistics involved.

I don't think we'll get an official announcement from StataCorp - not 
their style - but I wonder how many other Stata users feel the need for 
stats on their PDA.

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Ronan M Conroy (rconroy@rcsi.ie) 
Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics 
Royal College of Surgeons 
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