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What are the differences and similarities between SAS and Stata?

8AnneAnn6 — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 08:26:53 GMT

What are the differences and similarities between SAS and Stata? As for big data,which one is better?

Re: What are the differences and similarities between SAS and Stata?

xingsiqin — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 09:06:55 GMT

Similarities: They are both driven by codes and can do plenty kinds of statistic analysis.
Differences: As for now, I think the ways they save and manage data are different: SAS data must be saved in libraries but Stata does not have this restriction.

Re: What are the differences and similarities between SAS and Stata?

Reeza — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 18:02:24 GMT

Stata is used primarily by economists whereas SAS is more used in Healthcare and Financial industry. Which one can handle more data, depends on installation/license type. If you're using a SAS server installation versus desktop STATA, then SAS is definitely better.

SAS doesn't load data into RAM for data wrangling but it does for many regression/analytic procedures. I think Stata does all in memory so you need more RAM.

Both can do many of the same things though I think Stata has few more of the time series procedures that SAS does not. Cost wise, for an individual license Stata is usually cheaper unless you're a University researcher or affiliated at which point both are usually very cheap or free. Been a few years since I've had to do the cost analysis though.

Re: What are the differences and similarities between SAS and Stata?

8AnneAnn6 — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:23:28 GMT

Thank you so much and it helps a lot!

Re: What are the differences and similarities between SAS and Stata?

8AnneAnn6 — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:24:06 GMT

Thanks a lot !