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Re: st: Is -collapse- the Stata's fastest routine to summarize data sets?
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Eric Booth <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Is -collapse- the Stata's fastest routine to summarize data sets?
Date
Thu, 8 Jul 2010 20:22:47 +0000
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See this thread:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-07/msg00098.html
asking about -ftabstat- described here:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-04/msg01120.html
The posting form 2008 describes some of the speed differences among using -egen-, -collapse-, -gen-, and -ftabstat-.
~ Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
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On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Tiago V. Pereira wrote:
> Dear Statalister,
>
> I am eager to know any faster alternatives to -collapse-, because I have
> to summarize relatively large data sets for a simulation study. -profiler-
> is telling me that most of the computation burden comes from -collapse-.
> Do you know (have) any faster alternative? Perhaps a plug-in?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tiago
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