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Re: st: Reading large data sets in Stata
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Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Reading large data sets in Stata
Date
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:20:27 -0600
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> " That's 13Gb of data, right?"
>
>
> Depends very much on the " Average width per variable", as seen in
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/datacalc.cgi
> If they were all just binary vars, the dataset described by Jibonayan could
> be below 2G.
>
That's the best vs. the worst case scenario. Sure, one or two of the
variables must be identifiers, but you need long identifiers that take 4
bytes of width.
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