doing the histogram
. reg secs n if n>100000
Source | SS df MS Number of obs = 25
-------------+------------------------------ F( 1, 23) =22303.98
Model | 58.5205268 1 58.5205268 Prob > F = 0.0000
Residual | .060346731 23 .002623771 R-squared = 0.9990
-------------+------------------------------ Adj R-squared = 0.9989
Total | 58.5808735 24 2.44086973 Root MSE = .05122
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secs | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
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n | .0002122 1.42e-06 149.35 0.000 .0002092 .0002151
_cons | 2.543675 .1608615 15.81 0.000 2.210907 2.876442
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. di 10/_b[n]
47132.184
so 2.5 secs fixed cost, and every 50000 obs add approx 10 secs
stata 8 of course, in stata 7 things are almost instanteneous
ed.
On Fri Apr 11, 2003 17:38, David Airey wrote:
> instead of auto.dta
>
> In talking to Stata about a month ago on graphing speed, I think I was
> told there should not be that much difference in speed of display based
> on the number of observations. Do you see a big difference?
>
> -Dave
>
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