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Stata and SPSS
[New page 7 May 2013: updated 10 July 2016]
This is a new page which will examine differences between SPSS and Stata. Dirk Enzmann (Hamburg) very kindly replicated some of the exercises in 2.1 Nominal and ordinal variables. There is a comparison of frequency tabulations on Stata and SPSS 1. See also Dirk's Statistical Software (Some Useful Things) and the Stata thread on Nabble-SPSSX
Many academic centres are moving over from SPSS to Stata for reasons of cost
This is a new page which will examine differences between SPSS and Stata. Dirk Enzmann (Hamburg) very kindly replicated some of the exercises in 2.1 Nominal and ordinal variables. There is a comparison of frequency tabulations on Stata and SPSS 1. See also Dirk's Statistical Software (Some Useful Things) and the Stata thread on Nabble-SPSSX
Many academic centres are moving over from SPSS to Stata for reasons of cost
There's a short article on the AnalysisFactor site, Why Use Stata? by Jeff Meyer. He makes some comparisons (including comments on R) and originally opted for Stata because his student version of SPSS did not include certain options and which were inordinately expensive to add on. His comments on Stata and its user community are highly positive. However users of my site are more likely to have access to the full range of SPSS programs via their workplace or college, so cost should not be a consideration. It mentions a menu system, but I don't have Stata and haven't seen their menu system, so can't comment on comparisons between SPSS and Stata for doing the same analysis.
Jeff has very kindly replicated some of my SPSS exercises: they can be seen on:
Stata1 (Meyer) and Stata2 (Meyer)
Jeff has very kindly replicated some of my SPSS exercises: they can be seen on:
Stata1 (Meyer) and Stata2 (Meyer)