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AW: st: Spss vs Stata
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"Kaulisch, Marc" <[email protected]>
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AW: st: Spss vs Stata
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Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:40:46 +0200
Neil,
I might exaggerate with weeks but the table mentioned is done in SPSS within a minute or two. No need for extra software... Back in November when I searched after a solution in Stata I - as unexperienced as I am in Stata - needed one or two days to find out what Stata and user-written programs can do and what not....
On pivot tables: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_table
In another post David Airey (http://stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-08/msg00042.html) mentioned the Stata Users meeting this year. I quickly looked through the presentations from Gallup and Reif. But I do not grasp their full meaning for me as a potential user yet. May be there will be clarifiying articles in Stata Journal....
Marc
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Gesendet: Montag, 2. August 2010 16:44
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Betreff: Re: st: Spss vs Stata
n Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Kaulisch, Marc <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am more concerned about the flexibility to generate pivot tables than about pretty tables.
I've no idea what a "pivot table" is, but if the structure below....
> My previous example in http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-11/msg00238.html was:
> Table
> Rowvar colvar1 colvar2
> 1 2 1 2 3
> n C% n C% n C% n C% n C%
> 1
> 2
> 3
> Total
>
> In order to avoid weeks of Stata programming etc. we decided to generate those tables in SPSS.
>
You could likely achieve it using Ian Watson's -tabout- (available on
SSC) or likely achieve it from first principles using
-contract-/-collapse- in conjunction with some -append-/-merge- and a small amount of programming.
Although of course I've assumed that you know how to do this sort of programming, and if not it may well take "weeks", but next time it will take you far less, and eventually it will become second nature if you use Stata regularly.
Neil
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