Thanks Dave
At age 70 next December, I'm hardly keen to learn
yet more software. From what I've seen so far, Stata would be harder for
the sort of students I taught, but I haven't seen the new GUI yet.
If it's anything like the GUI in SPSS, give me syntax every time. However,
if anyone out there wants to produce Stata examples for all my SPSS ones, feel
free: all the data sets I use are on the site I can post them to my site
(full credit given) or you can build your own.
To give you an idea of what's going on re Stata vs
SPSS, I'll assemble a composite mail and post it to the Stata list.
Being a survey researcher rather than a statistician, I find that both camps are
a tad over-statistical (Stata perhaps more so) and not sufficiently geared to
content - the triumph of technique over substance?
As John Tukey once said, "All the statistics in the
world won't help you if you asked the wrong question in the first place!"
And as my old boss, the late Dr Mark Abrams, once said, "If it's worth saying,
you can say it in percentages."
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 2:29
PM
Subject: re: st: Fw: Contingency tables
etc. in Stata and SPSS
.
Nice web site.
This is an increasingly
common question from users moving from SPSS to Stata.
see the online
and PDF help
for
tabulate
table
contract
collapse
svy
The third
party ssc command "fre" is a nice alternative to tabulate, too.
Beyond
that and the sources you mentioned, maybe you can be the one to create the
definitive "SPSS to Stata tabulation guide for survey researchers". UNC has
some things as does UCLA.
-Dave
> Greetings from a newbie
to the list (but an Old SPSS Dog)
>
>
> Just been browsing
round the Stata site to see if I can find any comparisons between Stata and
SPSS for simple procedures like frequency counts and crosstabs. I'd like to
display parallel examples of syntax and default output. [...]
> If
anyone can point me in the direction of any Stata output like the tables and
other materials on my website, I'd be grateful., also for feedback on ease of
use and understanding.
> Regards
>
> John Hall
>
>
http://surveyresearch.weebly.com
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