Thank you very much, guys.
We are going to use the software (SAS or STATA) against a db2 database whose
serve resides on a linux box. The database is pretty big. Our statistical
analysis is going be simple. Most of the time, we only do the freqency
distribution and logistic regression (both conditional and unconditional).
Hope this will help you guys to help me out.
Dewei
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 1:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: STATA Vs. SAS
Laurel A Copeland, among many other comments, wrote
> I find SAS much better for data management. There are many ways to
> approach each coding task; code can be optimized for
> readability/teachability, or for brevity, or for
> conservation of space or CPU time.
and Richard Herrell similarly wrote
> I continue to find Stata frustrating for data
> management and prefer SAS's data step
> capabilities.
I think Stata's developers (and at least one user-programmer)
would like to see specific suggestions of what
is easier to do in SAS, to help influence
the agenda.
Sometimes -- but not always -- it turns out
that the facilities exist; it is just not
transparent how to use them.
Nick
[email protected]
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