At the risk of prolonging this slightly, several places that I think Stata
has great advantages are in the handling of 1) by groups, 2) better
explicit subscripting, and 3) handling and manipulation of longitudinal
(or panel data) in the long format rather than the wide format. Although it
has been a number of years since I used SAS, I still remember age1, age2,
age 3, age(n). This is all so much easier in Stata. Do loop with lags and
missing observations and data still give me panic attacks.
Fred Wolfe
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Fred Wolfe Tel
(316) 263-2125
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases Fax (316) 263-0761
Wichita,
Kansas [email protected]
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