Re: st: Spss vs Stata

[SCHOUMAKER Bruno <bruno.schoumaker@uclouvain.be>]

if I am wrong) only one column variable (but multiple row variables).
Bruno

Le 2/08/2010 16:43, Neil Shephard a écrit :
> n Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Kaulisch, Marc
> <kaulisch@forschungsinfo.de>  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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