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Description
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What is New in version 9 (Windows now available - Unix to follow shortly)?
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Description

Since 1986, Stat/Transfer has provided fast, reliable, and convenient data transfer between popular software packages for thousands of users, worldwide.

Stat/Transfer knows about statistical data --- it handles missing data, value and variable labels and all of the other details that are necessary to move as much information as is possible from one file format to another.

Stat/Transfer provides both an easy-to-use menu interface and a powerful batch facility.  Whether you are moving a simple table from Excel to SAS or moving megabytes of survey data between statistical packages, Stat/Transfer will save you time and money.

For Windows and Mac OS X, the Stat/Transfer user interface lets you do routine transfers with just a few clicks.

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Key Features

Stat/Transfer is designed to simplify the transfer of statistical data between different programs.

Manual transfer is not only time-consuming, it is error-prone.  For those in possession of data sets with many variables, it represents a serious impediment to the use of more than one program.

Stat/Transfer removes this barrier by providing an extremely fast, reliable and automatic way to move data.Stat/Transfer will automatically read statistical data in the internal format of one of the supported programs and will then transfer as much of the information as is present and appropriate to the internal format of another.

Stat/Transfer preserves all of the precision in your data, while automatically minimizing the size of your output data set.  Stat/Transfer also allows control over the storage format of your output variables.

In addition to converting the formats of variables, Stat/Transfer also processes variable names, missing values and value and variable labels automatically.

Stat/Transfer can save hours and even days of manual labor, while at the same time eliminating error. Furthermore, you gain this speed and accuracy without losing flexibility, since Stat/Transfer allows you to select just the variables and cases you want to transfer. 

In addition to the standard Windows interface, a command processor on Windows and on Unix allows you to run a transfer in batch mode.  This makes it straightforward to set up fully automatic batch procedures for repetitive tasks.

Stat/Transfer Version 9 is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and popular Unix platforms.

Version 9 of Stat/Transfer reads and writes the following data files:

• 1-2-3
• Access (Windows only)
• ASCII - Delimited
• ASCII - Fixed Format
• dBASE and compatible formats
• Excel
• Epi Info
• FoxPro
• Gauss
• HTML Tables (output)
• JMP
• LIMDEP
• Matlab
• Mineset
• NLOGIT
• ODBC
• OSIRIS (input)
• Paradox
• Quattro Pro
• SAS for Windows and OS/2
• SAS for Unix
• SAS Program with Fixed ASCII Data (output)
• SAS Transport
• SAS Value Labels
• SAS CPORT
• S-PLUS
• SPSS Data
• SPSS Portable
• SPSS Program with Fixed ASCII Data (output)
• Stata
• Stata Program with Fixed ASCII Data (output)
• Statistica
• SYSTAT

Stat/Transfer’s ODBC support allows you to also read and write to such relational databases as Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and DB/2.

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What is New in Stat/Transfer 9?

Format

Stat/Transfer Version 9 has added the following

• Excel 2007
• NLOGIT
• R
• SAS CPORT data sets and catalogues (read only)
• SAS PC/DOS 6.04 (read only)
• S-PLUS through Version 7
• Delimited ASCII with a Stat/Transfer SCHEMA file

Other New Features

• The Windows version is fully compatible with Microsoft Vista.
• Worksheet pages can be concatenated into a single output file.
• The command processor now allows multiple input files to be combined into a single output file.
• Value label tags and sets can be preserved.
• SAS value labels can now be read from Transport files, CPORT files, data sets and catalogues.
• JMP support has been expanded.
• Users can specify any delimiter for ASCII files and can combine adjacent blank delimiters.
• Generated programs and ASCII files can now preserve input widths.
• In R and S-Plus, factors can now be converted to numeric variables with labels or to string variables.
• The command processor now has a flexible syntax for specifying input and output tables simultaneously.
• Support for longer string variables and longer value and variable labels has been added, so that Stat/Transfer is compatible with the limits of all supported programs.
• In the Windows version, a built-in logging and FTP facility is now available for troubleshooting

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Last revised:26/04/2007