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Re: st: STATA command equivalent to SPSS "aggregate"?
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Richard Williams <[email protected]>
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Re: st: STATA command equivalent to SPSS "aggregate"?
Date
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:46:02 -0500
At 09:21 AM 3/19/2013, Frank Lopresti wrote:
I don't think collapse does all aggregate does, collapse doesn't seem
to allow you to create a aggregated file with several break variables.
I guess you could accomplish this with a second collapse.
You may be right, since I don't remember SPSS aggregate that well.
But, collapse does let you specify multiple vars in the -by- option,
if that is what you mean. The help for collapse says
by(varlist) groups over which stat is to be calculated
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Scott Holupka <[email protected]> wrote:
> As a long-time SPSS user I had the same question the other day and the
> -collapse- command worked fine.
>
> Scott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Judith Saebel
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:12 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: STATA command equivalent to SPSS "aggregate"?
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to explore this.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Judith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Williams
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2013 23:16
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: STATA command equivalent to SPSS "aggregate"?
>
> If i remember my SPSS, You probably want -collapse-.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 19, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Judith Saebel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> In STATA (version 11), is there an equivalent to the SPSS command
>> "aggregate" please?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any advice.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Judith Saebel
>>
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