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Stata Compress

-compress- performs lossless compression of a dataset by scaling down the storage size of data types.

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Usage

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-The '''`compress`''' command attempts lossless compression of data types in the active dataset to reduce the memory footprint.
+'''`-compress-`''' performs lossless compression of a dataset by scaling down the storage size of [[Stata/DataTypes|data types]].
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-[[https://www.stata.com/manuals/dcompress.pdf|Stata manual for compress]]
+[[https://www.stata.com/manuals/dcompress.pdf|Stata manual for -compress-]]