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Re: st: Spss vs Stata
From
Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Spss vs Stata
Date
Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:43:47 +0000
n Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Kaulisch, Marc
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am more concerned about the flexibility to generate pivot tables than about pretty tables.
I've no idea what a "pivot table" is, but if the structure below....
> My previous example in http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-11/msg00238.html was:
> Table
> Rowvar colvar1 colvar2
> 1 2 1 2 3
> n C% n C% n C% n C% n C%
> 1
> 2
> 3
> Total
>
> In order to avoid weeks of Stata programming etc. we decided to generate those tables in SPSS.
>
You could likely achieve it using Ian Watson's -tabout- (available on
SSC) or likely achieve it from first principles using
-contract-/-collapse- in conjunction with some -append-/-merge- and a
small amount of programming.
Although of course I've assumed that you know how to do this sort of
programming, and if not it may well take "weeks", but next time it
will take you far less, and eventually it will become second nature if
you use Stata regularly.
Neil
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