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Stat/Transfer 8.0

Product Description

Stat/Transfer facilitates the transfer of data among the different spreadsheet and statistical programs by providing a fast and reliable way to convert files from one format to another for the following programmes.

• Microsoft Access (Versions 2.0 through Office '97)
  dBase (all versions)
  Delimited ASCII
  Epi Info
  Excel worksheets (all versions, including Excel 2000)
  FoxPro
  Gauss (Windows and Unix)
  JMP (versione 4 and 5)*
  LIMDEP
  Lotus 1-2-3 (all versions)
  Matlab 5
  Mineset
  Minitab
  OSIRIS (read-only)
  Paradox (versions 7, 8 and 9)*
  Quattro Pro for DOS and Windows
  S-Plus (Windows and Unix)
  SAS for Unix -- HP, IBM, Sun
  SAS for Unix -- DEC Alpha
  SAS for Windows and OS/2
  SAS Transport
  SAS Value Labels
  SAS Version 7-9
  SPSS Datafiles (Windows and Unix)
  SPSS Portable Files
  Stata (all versiones, including 8)
  Statistica
  Systat (Windows and Macintosh)
  ODBC data sources (Oracle, Sybase, Informix, etc.)

* new in Stat/Transfer 8

Principal Characteristics

• Data viewer allows you to preview data in a scrollable grid before you perform your transfer*
• Option to control the version and "flavor" of the output Stata dataset that will be written by Stat/Transfer*
• Web self-update (Windows version)
• Wildcards for tables and worksheet pages (move multiple tables in a single command)
• Complete on-line documentation
• Preserves all of the precision of your data
• Support for extended (.A to .Z)missing values in SAS and Stata
• Produces HTML tables from data
• Automatically selects appropriate output dataset storage types
• Optionally reads your data first to select the smallest possible types
• Allows manual control over output dataset storage types
• Produces missing values automatically
• Preserves variable names, value labels, and variable labels
• Allows selection of subset of variables and cases for transfer
• Allows choice of worksheet page
• Runs in both menu-driven and batch modes
• Optionally enter transfer commands with copy-like syntax
• Optionally build batch jobs and shortcuts for repetitive transfers
• Extensive options for customization
• Handles up to 8,000 variables; no limit on observations

Command processor features

• Automatic wildcard transfers (e.g. copy *.dta *.sd2)
• Build batch jobs and shortcuts for repetitive transfers
• Directly Zip files or run other DOS or Windows programs
• Enter transfer commands with a copy-like syntax
• Keep or Drop processing for field selection
• Save ODBC information for prompt-free connections

Date/Time Support

• New Time and Date-Time types
• User-Configurable formats for both reading and writing
• Fully Year-2000 (and Year-1600) compliant
• Quick variable selection using wildcards and/or ranges
• More control over how worksheet ranges and field names are read
• Easy output path selection using a most recently used list
• More control over how user-missing values are processed

User Interface Features

• Quick variable selection using wildcards and ranges
• More control over how worksheet ranges and field names are read
• Easy output path selection using a most-recently-used list
• More control over how user-missing values are processed

* new in Stat/Transfer 8

Systems Technical Requirements

Stat/Transfer 8.0 is available for Windows, MacinTosh OSX, and Unix: Digital Unix, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux Intel, SGI (Irix), Sun Solaris.

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