Bill, As far as I could tell all of the responses were directed at techniques/models (zero-inflated models, generalized linear models, etc.). Some folks offered ways to use those techniques in various common software packages, but I don't see how that's a bad thing or that it shows any reliance on "black boxes". If anything, ANOVA and regression are the black boxes because they lure people into doing an analysis that makes no sense, just because the technique is institutionalized. And, with regard to R, it can probably do any analysis you can cook up - there's nothing really "canned" if you know what you want to do (and it's free, not proprietary).
Dave At 09:57 PM 1/13/2008 +0000, you wrote: >One point about the various replies to this and other posts that disturbs me >is the focus of the responses. It used to be that statistical questions were >answered in terms of statistical techniques, such as regression or ANOVA or >t-tests. Now the answers are phrased in terms of software - SAS, R, SysStat, >etc. I am not confident that relying on proprietary black boxes is the best >way to analyse data. > >Bill Silvert > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > If you have access to SAS, ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Hewitt Fisheries Science/Crustacean Ecology Virginia Institute of Marine Science College of William and Mary P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 804.684.7333 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ Please, no MS Word attachments. Why? Start here: http://tinyurl.com/cbgq
