Especially for this forum. It's more about MS Office than about individual statistical packages.
Seeing that the full printed documentation set is USD 495 this is a complex and professional package. See if there's is support or training material or training courses offered on http://www.stata.com/
If what you want now is not possible for you, your options seem to be:
- reformat the data to something you know how to analyse with stata 10
- use another tool to analyse the data
- hire an stata expert
Best of luck.
Kees
I am using Stata 10 and my data is in Ascii format. However, my data has
4 record types represented by the first 2 digits in the data.
Each
record does not necessarily take the same amount of rows. What I mean is
that the first record might have say 3 rows for the record type 01 and 4
rows for the record type 02, etc.. and the second record might have say
only 2 rows for the record type 01 and 6 rows for record type 02.
I have come across a dictionary like the one shown below but I don't
think it will work for me because the example below assumes that each
record is found on a single row and that each record takes only 3 rows;
am I right?
<i>dictionary using tree.dat {
_lines(3)
_line(1)
_column(1) idnum %4f
_column(5) treetype %2f
_line(2)
_column(5) soilphn %3.2f "Soil PH - North Side"
_column(
soilphe %3.2f "Soil PH - East Side"
_column(11) soilphs %3.2f "Soil PH - South Side"
_column(14) soilphw %3.2f "Soil PH - West Side"</i>
So, is there a way to write a dictionary that will represent my data?
Thanks for your help!
regards,
Ali

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