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st: STATA command equivalent to SPSS "aggregate"?
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:09:09 +1030
From: "Judith Saebel" <[email protected]>
Subject: st: STATA command equivalent to SPSS "aggregate"?
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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In addition to the comments already made, I would suggest that the
answer to your question depends on what you want to do with the
'aggregated' data. -collapse- produces a new dataset, which you could
(a) analyse as is, or perhaps (b) you want to merge aggregated
statistics back onto your original data set. (E.g. a group mean
attributed to each member of the same group.)
I write regarding (b). My recollection (from years back) is that one
could do this in SPSS only by using AGGREGATE following by merging the
data back in.
Stata allows you to do this in one step (and is one of the major reasons
I took up Stata): look at -egen- with or without -by:- (for subgroup
statistics)
Stephen
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