RE: st: STATA command equivalent to SPSS "aggregate"?

["David Radwin" <dradwin@mprinc.com>]

Judith,

Also consider Roger Newson's -xcollapse- from SSC, which has some nice
enhancements.

David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Joerg Luedicke
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:58 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: STATA command equivalent to SPSS "aggregate"?
> 
> I don't think this is true. If I remember correctly, "break variables"
> are variables that you would specify with -collapse-'s -by()- option.
> 
> Joerg
> 
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Frank Lopresti <fl2@nyu.edu> wrote:
> > I don't think collapse does all aggregate does,  collapse doesn't seem
> > to allow you to create a aggregated file with several break variables.
> >  I guess you could accomplish this with a second collapse.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Scott Holupka <scott.holupka@jhu.edu>
> wrote:
> >> As a long-time SPSS user I had the same question the other day and
the
> >> -collapse- command worked fine.
> >>
> >> Scott
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> >> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Judith
> Saebel
> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:12 AM
> >> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> >> Subject: RE: st: STATA command equivalent to SPSS "aggregate"?
> >>
> >> Hi Richard,
> >>
> >> Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll have to explore this.
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> Judith
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> >> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Richard
> Williams
> >> Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2013 23:16
> >> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> >> Subject: Re: st: STATA command equivalent to SPSS "aggregate"?
> >>
> >> If i remember my SPSS, You probably want -collapse-.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >> On Mar 19, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Judith Saebel <clickjls@esc.net.au>
wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear All,
> >>>
> >>> In STATA (version 11), is there an equivalent to the SPSS command
> >>> "aggregate" please?
> >>>
> >>> Many thanks in advance for any advice.
> >>>
> >>> Sincerely,
> >>>
> >>> Judith Saebel

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