Sas Vs Stata. To begin with sas is in its version 9 and has also enhanced its visual appeal greatly. 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.
But spss still comes with its popular click and get results interface. A comparison of r python sas spss and stata. R is a popular open source statistics environment that can be extended by packages almost at will.
Common statistics program packages differ considerably in terms of their strengths weaknesses and handling.
With stata i tend to feel that the data i am working with are floating in some nebulous and unnamed space of uncertain location. Changing to a new system can result in high costs for things like new licenses. I ve had to learn and use sas r and stata and it is very field dependent. Sas s proc export can be used to convert a sas data file to stata format as shown below.
