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Re: st: most requested *simple* features to help SPSS users transition
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: most requested *simple* features to help SPSS users transition
Date
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:06:42 +0100
-encode- is fine. The selling point of -egen, group()- is that it
extends without pain to composite categorical variables.
Nick
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Joerg Luedicke
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:43 AM, JVerkuilen (Gmail)
> <[email protected]> wrote:>
>> (3) SPSS has one "killer app": Data management in it is quite nice.
>> For instance, "automatic recode" is monumentally convenient. This
>> takes a variable, automatically creates a new one with sequential
>> numbers and labels it with the values of the old variables. The
>> variable can be big 'n nasty, like a string with hundreds of unique
>> entries. The ability to do things like paste labels and so on is also
>> handy, though it may go against the general philosophy of careful
>> tracing of all changes to data.
>
> If I remember correctly, the equivalent in Stata would simply be the
> -encode- command:
>
> sysuse auto, clear
> encode make, g(make2)
>
> I do not really remember if the "automatic recode" covers things that
> -egen, group()- can do, but I don't think so. At any rate, I don't
> believe SPSS has even one single advantage over Stata... ;)
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