NCSS is beautiful in its ease of use and robustness. It comes with a set of
printed documentation that is really a series of applied stats books including
literature references. I have used the current version for about a year. It has
a few minor flaws in that it occasionally locks up or boots you out--I don't know
if it is a MS prob or an NCSS prob. But i strongly recommend it in terms of
easeof use, comprehensiveness, high precision and telephone support by the guy
who put it together, Jerry Hintze.
Charlie wrote:
> I was a SAS user from the mainframe days until about 1995. I liked the
> software but the yearly lease was prohibitive.
>
> I tested several stat packages at that time and settled on Statistica.
> I have no regrets. Their ads are every bit the truth. It's a great
> package, well worth the $1,000. Rumor has it the package is alien
> technology from the Roswell, NM crash. This is probably not true
> because the statistics are very up to date.
>
> I have a colleague who swears by NCSS, but I've never used it. The
> $300 price tag sounds cheap for what it's supposed to do. Maybe it's
> alien technology.
>
> I've never warmed up to Minitab. I guess I know too many rabid Penn
> Staters who think it's the second coming of SAS.
>
> Statgraphics? Well I've never recovered from our first meeting in the
> late 1980s.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 19:53:04 GMT, "AJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >I am interested in opinions on the Statistica package. I have always used
> >SPSS, but now that I need to buy my own program, I am intrigued by
> >Statistica. Not surprisingly, their ads are very compelling. I need a
> >general, broad-based package with basic stats, GLM, regression, survival
> >analysis, and graphics. I have used SPSS since the mainframe days, but I am
> >Statistica (and Systat) appear to provide excellent value. I am a
> >behavioral science researcher with a moderate to strong background in
> >applied multivariate analysis (not a statistician). Any comments?
> >Thanks. -- Al J.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Charlie Kufs
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