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| From | Steve Samuels <sjsamuels@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Why no error with -table- & trailing -if- ? |
| Date | Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:01:22 -0400 |
Thanks. I agree about the teaching. It's amusing that empty option
slots indicated by multiple commas are possible.
Steve
On Oct 24, 2013, at 9:12 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
This works for weights too:
. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)
. su mpg, detail, [w=length]
(analytic weights assumed)
Mileage (mpg)
-------------------------------------------------------------
Percentiles Smallest
1% 12 12
5% 14 12
10% 14 14 Obs 74
25% 17 14 Sum of Wgt. 13907
50% 19 Mean 20.75919
Largest Std. Dev. 5.621854
75% 24 34
90% 28 35 Variance 31.60525
95% 31 35 Skewness 1.03329
99% 41 41 Kurtosis 4.274852
I have to say that I keep quiet about this feature when teaching Stata.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com
On 24 October 2013 13:52, Steve Samuels <sjsamuels@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks, Nick. I managed to find that section myself. Sergiy, I now
> understand what you were describing: command-specific options can
> alternate with -if- and -in- qualifiers; a command-specific option must
> come first. Also, the two qualifiers can appear together, as they
> can if written before the first comma, but only one instance of each is allowed.
>
> So the following are both legal syntax:
>
> . sum mpg, det, if foreign in 50/l, format
> . sum mpg, det, if foreign, format, in 50/l
>
>
> The Manual calls the insertion of the qualifiers a "return to the
> command line", what Sergiy called "command mode". Are there any other
> "command line" elements besides the qualifiers that can appear after a
> comma?
>
>
> Steve
>
> On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
>
> The perhaps surprising extended role of the comma is documented at [U] 11.1.7.
>
> (http://www.stata.com/manuals13/u.pdf p.82)
>
>
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 24 October 2013 00:46, Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Steve Samuels <sjsamuels@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> . sysuse auto, clear
>>> . table rep78, c(mean mpg), if turn<40
>>
>> Because it is out of options already. Visualize it like this:
>>
>> cmd , options, more command, more options
>>
>> Comma switches between the command and the options mode. So your
>> command is equivalent to:
>> table rep78 if turn<40, c(mean mpg)
>>
>> Best, Sergiy Radyakin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve
>>> sjsamuels@gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:35 PM, Sergiy Radyakin wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Dirk,
>>>
>>> see if -savespss- and or saveto9.exe are able to help:
>>> http://www.radyakin.org/transfer/savespss/savespss.htm
>>> http://www.radyakin.org/transfer/saveto9/cs/index.htm
>>>
>>> The first one is a Stata 10.0+ command (in Mata) that writes SPSS
>>> system files (*.sav) directly. The second one is a standalone utility
>>> to "downgrade" the version of the Stata dataset without Stata at all
>>> (neither Stata, nor SPSS, nor Stat/Transfer is necessary for it).
>>>
>>> Best, Sergiy Radyakin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Dirk Enzmann
>>> <dirk.enzmann@uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
>>>> Yes.
>>>>
>>>> I cannot come up with hard numbers, but here are some impressions as to the
>>>> difficulties:
>>>>
>>>> I already bought Stata from my private money (for use at my work!) - when I
>>>> bought it the first time (several years ago) my institution had no net
>>>> license of Stata; even after they decided to invest into a net license, I
>>>> regularary bought new versions because my instituion is too slow to invest
>>>> in updates (at the moment, the most recent version available is Stata 11!).
>>>> I would not starve if I had to buy StatTransfer on top of it, but I am
>>>> really hesitating because this I also had to pay subtracting from my salary
>>>> because this program does not belong to the software our institution bought
>>>> for use of their students or employees.
>>>>
>>>> Until Stata 12 I could live comfortably without StatTransfer - I wrote an
>>>> SPSS script (SPSS2Stata.sbs) to translate SPSS files to Stata and a Stata
>>>> .ado (-dta2sav-) to move Stata files to SPSS. But the way to SPSS is blocked
>>>> now since Stata 13.
>>>>
>>>> Luckily I have bought Stata 12 before, thus I can use it for moving files
>>>> from Stata 13 to SPSS - others, who are new to Stata since version 13 are
>>>> not so lucky.
>>>>
>>>> I recently convinced colleagues in Finland to use Stata - but now they
>>>> recognize that they have to buy StatTransfer on top of it. Of course, this
>>>> is my fault, I should have told them before.
>>>>
>>>> Some days ago there was a thread in the SPSS discussion list showing that
>>>> others experience this problem, as well (see:
>>>> http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/Stata-to-SPSS-conversion-td5722443.html
>>>> ).
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps more important than money is the fact that even buying StatTranfer
>>>> does not help in all situations: It does not preserve labels of user missing
>>>> values (Stata's exended missing values) when transferring Stata data to SPSS
>>>> data (the other way round is also not without problems). To overcome this
>>>> problem, I wrote -dta2sav- (availabel on SSC). Unfortunately, if you don't
>>>> have an older version of Stata at your disposal (here, -uses13- can help),
>>>> you can't use it to transfer Stata 13 (format 117) files to SPSS.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, you can blame SPSS for not updating their import routines (even
>>>> the maintenance of R's -foreign- package has been frozen for Stata formats
>>>> after 12, see http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreign/foreign.pdf on
>>>> page 5), but this does not help users who want to use Stata in a context of
>>>> a majority (or important) colleagues still using SPSS.
>>>>
>>>> Dirk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:17:34 +0100, Nick Cox<njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> So, in summary, you appear to be saying that you know people who could
>>>>> afford Stata 13 but are reluctant to buy because they (a) would be in
>>>>> difficulty transferring their datasets to SPSS and (b) cannot afford
>>>>> StatTransfer as an extra purchase?
>>>>>
>>>>> That's interesting. I have got to say that they are missing out on a
>>>>> great upgrade.
>>>>>
>>>>> I just checked and a single user academic license [sic] of
>>>>> StatTransfer is USD 179.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> As I understand, Sergiy's add-ons could help them a lot.
>>>>>
>>>>> StataCorp would, I think, be interested in hard evidence that they are
>>>>
>>>>> losing out on sales because people really need a kind of "save to
>>>>> SPSS" command before they can decide to buy. I have no insight into
>>>>> how SPSS is managed.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ========================================
>>>> Dr. Dirk Enzmann
>>>> Institute of Criminal Sciences
>>>> Dept. of Criminology
>>>> Rothenbaumchaussee 33
>>>> D-20148 Hamburg
>>>> Germany
>>>>
>>>> phone: +49-(0)40-42838.7498 (office)
>>>> +49-(0)40-42838.4591 (Mrs Billon)
>>>> fax: +49-(0)40-42838.2344
>>>> email: dirk.enzmann@uni-hamburg.de
>>>> http://www2.jura.uni-hamburg.de/instkrim/kriminologie/Mitarbeiter/Enzmann/Enzmann.html
>>>> ========================================
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