>Subject: stat packages
>From: "AJ" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: 9/8/00 2:53 PM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: <Asbu5.1071$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>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 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 am not sure if the STATISTICA people use alien technology, but it sure is a
technology that is light years ahead of SPSS (or SAS which still reminds me my
college years and the War in Vietnam). STATISTICA is a wonderful product, that
deserves winning every single review that it has won, and I guess that it has
won all of them, am I right?
E. Tromso
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