st: SPSS and IBM

[Alan Acock <acock@mac.com>]

This morning in The Financial Times I read a short article saying that  
IBM just bought SPSS for $1.2 Billion dollars. It said they were  
interested in it for Predictive Analytics--a long way from the roots  
of SPSS as the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. This  
development seems consistent with the recent name change in SPSS. It  
will be interesting to see where the package goes in terms of the  
statistical applications it offers.

Alan Acock
On Jul 29, 2009, at 4:38 AM, Eric Uslaner wrote:

> Dana Chandler asked:
>
> I just downloaded a bunch of data from ICPSR, but unfortunately not
> all of it has stata do files to go from the fixed width .txt raw data
> to a stata .dta dataset.
>
> ICPSR does, however, provide setup files for SPSS and SAS. I can guess
> at what the syntax is and then manually adjust it to write a stata do
> file. Since it's a rather slow process, I was hoping someone had a
> perl script or other way to use regular expressions or what have you
> to convert a SAS or SPSS setup file to a stata dictionary.
>
> Thanks,
> Dana
>
> There is a usespss ado on SSC.  That should solve your immediate  
> problem.
>
> But even better follow Steve Dubnoff's advice and get Stat  
> Transfer.  It is an excellent program and if you use ICPSR  
> regularly, you can download SPSS data files and immediately convert  
> them to Stata.
>
> HTH,
>
> Ric
>
>
>
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