Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Suzy
> Sent: 14 October 2006 14:14
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Stata vs SPSS
>
>
> "Stata has problem with output formatting and reports."
>
> I agree with this comment and the rest. Stata graphics
> capabilities,
> in the sense that things CAN be done... with lines and lines of stata
> commands and the odd way of needing to combine graphs to
> derive another
> graph, are way too complex for relatively simple requests. I
> think Stata
> graphics as well as general output and formatting are areas
> that really
> need some attention. This has been discussed more than a few
> times over
> the past few years. Even with these problems, Stata's
> capabilities and
> strengths in so many other areas more than make up for the
> deficiency in
> this area.
>
>
> Fred Wolfe wrote:
>
> > Our group recently had an experience with SAS vs. Stata that maybe
> > illuminating. We collected, managed and analyzed data from
> a clinical
> > trial using interfaces that we in part designed that made use of
> > scanning software (Teleform), SQL and Stata. At the end of
> the study
> > the sponsor unexpectedly asked us for 102 specially
> formatted tables.
> > The format of the tables was complex, but was based on SAS
> generated
> > tables that were standard for the sponsor. The tables had multiple
> > columns, statistics placed at special points within the
> tables, group
> > comparisons and interspersed headings. Although we could easily
> > produce individual components of the tables, the completed
> tables as
> > requested was something we could not do but that they did easily in
> > SAS. When I say we could not do it, I don't mean it was impossible.
> > But at best it would have required very complex Stata
> programming. The
> > amount of work required on our part would have been enormous and we
> > refused to do it. Instead, we provided the corporate
> sponsor with SAS
> > files using -fdasave- so that they could make the tables
> they wished.
> >
> > Stata has problem with output formatting and reports.
> Although this is
> > rarely limiting for manuscripts and short reports, a substantial
> > number of postings to this list (and programs) are concerned with
> > production of formatted output. In the world I live in, I have to
> > share output with colleagues and journals using the most
> commonly used
> > formats: MS Word (or equivalent) and Excel (or equivalent). I need
> > attractive, non-proportional fonts, flexible page formatting and
> > simple control of labels and titles. Easy to request and
> very hard to
> > implement, I'm sure. But such abilities would make Stata an even
> > greater package than it is now.
> >
> > Fred Wolfe
> >
> > Fred Wolfe
> > National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
> > Wichita, Kansas
> > Tel +1 316 263 2125
> > [email protected]
> >
> >
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