This is a good way to transition into using Stata. Stata has a grad plan that lets people at universities get StatTransfer for $52.00 (I think it is usually about $150.00). StatTransfer, and packages like it, make it easy to switch between packages. It works with all major packages from dBase to SAS to Gauss. You enter the name of the dataset and what it is in, say SPSS, and enter the software it is going to, say Stata. You click on transfer and everything is transferred without a glitch. This includes missing values, labels, everything that both packages can share.
Alan Acock ----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Kendall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 6:46 AM Subject: Re: spss v. stata | part 2 | Many of my clients have found it useful to do the time-consuming part of | your work in SPSS, [metadata creation, cleaning, transformations, | exploration] etc., and after all that is done pass the data to STATA, or | SUDAAN, etc. if you find a particular procedure useful. | | | Hope this helps. | | Art | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Social Research Consultants | University Park, MD USA | (301) 864-5570 | | | . | . | ================================================================= | Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the | problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: | . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . | ================================================================= . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
