Why use Stata?: Stata is fast

0.018 seconds: Stata sorts 10,000 observations .
0.021 seconds: Stata reports summary statistics on 25 variables .
0.034 seconds: Stata runs a linear regression (10 covariates).
0.101 seconds: Stata runs a logistic regression (10 covariates).
0.258 seconds: Stata runs a stcox regression (10 covariates).

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Stata is fast

On a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Quad running Stata/SE Windows 7,

Here are some more times, in seconds:

	1,000 obs	10,000 obs	50,000 obs	100,000 obs	200,000 obs
sort 25-variable dataset on 3 keys	< .001	.018	.086	.193	.406
summary statistics, 25 variables	.002	.021	.214	.401	.767
linear regression, 10 covariates	.030	.034	.087	.167	.294
logistic regression, 10 covariates	.109	.101	.378	.752	1.444
stcox regression, 10 covariates	.048	.258	1.333	2.599	4.825

Stata/MP, a parallel-processing-capable version of Stata/SE, is even faster.

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