Transcription of Introduction to Stata
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Introduction to StataChristopher F BaumFaculty Micro Resource CenterBoston CollegeAugust 2011 Christopher F Baum (Boston College FMRC) Introduction to StataAugust 20111 / 157 Strengths of StataWhat is Stata ?Overview of the Stata environmentStata is a full-featured statistical programming language for Windows,Mac OS X, Unix and Linux. It can be considered a stat package, likeSAS, SPSS, RATS, or is available in several versions: Stata /IC (the standard version), Stata /SE (an extended version) and Stata /MP (for multiprocessing).The major difference between the versions is the number of variablesallowed in memory, which is limited to 2,047 in standard Stata /IC, butcan be much larger in Stata /SE or Stata /MP.
Stata is eminently portable, and its developers are committed to cross-platform compatibility. Stata runs the same way on Windows, Mac OS X, Unix, and Linux systems. The only platform-specific aspects of using Stata are those related to native operating system commands: e.g. is the file to be accessed C:\Stata\StataData\myfile.dta or
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