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st: may I run -lowess- in a faster way?
Dear Stata listers:
I have a large data set and used the command -lowess-, which took 9.5 
minutes to run using art of the data. I am using a notebook with Windows XP 
Professional, a processor Intel Pentium 1.73 GHz, 1.99 GB RAM.
For the specifications bellow, is it possible to get more speed, mainly to 
analyse a  less restrict piece of data within the dataset? By the way, I 
know that -lowess- is time consuming.
set mem 75m
(76800k)
. use "C:\ROSANGELA\doutorado\trabalho2.dta"
. des
Contains data from C:\ROSANGELA\doutorado\trabalho2.dta
 obs:       272,704
vars:            32                          14 Sep 2008 20:26
size:    41,723,712 (46.9% of memory free)
memory
                                                 bytes
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Details of set memory usage
   overhead (pointers)                       1,090,816        1.39%
   data                                            40,632,896       51.67%
                                       ----------------------------
   data + overhead                          41,723,712       53.05%
   free                                             36,919,480       46.95%
                                       ----------------------------
   Total allocated                             78,643,192      100.00%
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Other memory usage
   system overhead                           1,600,258
   set matsize usage                              337,600
   programs, saved results, etc.               17,351
                                       ---------------
   Total                                             1,955,209
-------------------------------------------------------
Grand total                                      80,598,401
count if sexo01==1 & idad_pesm<=12 & ordempesagem<=5
46355
lowess  est_wazw idad_pesm if sexo01==1 & idad_pesm<=12 & ordempesagem<=5
r; t=570.88 13:50:31
. dis 570/60
9.5
Thank you,
Jos� Maria
Jose Maria Pacheco de Souza, Professor Titular (aposentado)
Departamento de Epidemiologia/Faculdade de Saude Publica, USP
Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 715
01246-904  -  S. Paulo/SP - Brasil
fones (11)3082-3886; (11)3083-4246; (11)3061-7747; (11)3768-8612; 
(11)3714-2403
fax (11)3082-2920; (11)3714-2403
www.fsp.usp.br/~jmpsouza 
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