Sas Stata. We also highly recommend a sample stata session via the stata web site which gives you a quick overview of using stata as well as seeing the gs getting started manual that accompanied your purchase of stata. By specifying the file extension as dta sas understands that the sas data file mydata in the work directory will be converted to a stata file.
Stata both spss and sas have been around in the world of statistical analysis for several years now so the conundrum of which is better software for statistical analysis is an age old question among data people. When you export a sas data set to a stata file a single missing value is written to the stata file. Sas missing values are written as stata missing values.
By default sas prints a missing numeric value as a single period and a missing character value as a blank space.
Stata both spss and sas have been around in the world of statistical analysis for several years now so the conundrum of which is better software for statistical analysis is an age old question among data people. What s new tree level 1. Sas s proc export can be used to convert a sas data file to stata format as shown below. Instead it is intended to be a short simple sweet and handy reference for sas users who are making the transition to stata.
