From the course: Introduction to Stata 15
Why you should use Stata - Stata Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Stata 15
Why you should use Stata
- [Franz] Are you looking for a tool that gives you a wide variety of statistical functions and strong graphical capabilities? Do you need something that has the ability to load gigabytes of data, but still make data manipulation fast and easy? In this case, you may want to consider Stata 15. Stata is a general purpose statistical software that has a wide range of data management and computational abilities, and has similarities to Excel and SPSS. With Stata, you can open many different types of data files, reorder them, merge them, change them, and perform powerful statistical analysis. Stata can load and process up to 120,000 variables, 20 billion observations, and its multi-core processing capability allows you to use up to 64 CPU cores to speed up your work. Hi, my name is Franz Buscha, and I've been using Stata for the last 20 years, and I'm excited to show you the basics of one of the top five most used statistical software packages. Come and join me as we explore all the important introductory topics that you need to know in order to get the most out of Stata.
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