At 4:25 PM -0800 12/1/99, Muriel Strand wrote:
>i'd appreciate anyone's current thoughts on what's the best stat software for
>the mac these days. (specifically a g3).
>
>thanks in advance for your advice.
>
>--
>Any resemblance of any of the above opinions to anybody's official position is
>completely coincidental.
>
>Muriel Strand, P.E.
>Air Resources Engineer
>CA Air Resources Board
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This depends, of course, on what you want to do. For the standard statistical
techniques and analyses, and many more interesting extensions, I
highly recommend Stata.
SPSS recently recommitted to the Mac and they are having the latest version of
the flagship product adapted. I still prefer Stata. For graphical
data analysis of not too large
data sets, and for instructional purposes, DataDesk is a very good choice.
For development and graduate work, there is no better
tool than XLISP-STAT (and its various incarnations such as Vista and
Arc). But Stata is
very good here too.
Of course this is a highly controversial area, and after reading the
above many people
will think that I am a fool.
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