If your staff is not afraid of the command line, take a look at R. Very powerful and Open Source. That means, instead of "purchasing several copies of one program," you could download several copies. For that matter, compatability, with clients for example, is no longer an issue, burn a CD and send them a copy of the software, then they have it too.
www.r-project.org -----Original Message----- From: Dalby, James WLAP:EX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 6:25 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Statistical software for environmental monitoring data? I am curious to know what people on EdStat think about various statistical software packages. Which would you say performs the best? We are thinking of purchasing several copies of one program for the various offices around our province sometime this year. We want to analyze all kinds of environmental monitoring data, such as water chemistry data, benthic invertebrate data, etc. Software currently being discussed by our staff include JMP and Statistica. Thanks for sharing your first-hand experiences. Dr. James E. Dalby, Jr., Aquaculture Biometrician BC Ministry of Water, Land, & Air Protection 2080A Labieux Road Nanaimo, British Columbia CANADA, V9T-6J9 Phone (250) 751-7246, Fax 751-3103 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/epd/epdpa/industrial_waste/agriculture/agri_fishf.h tm <http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/epd/epdpa/industrial_waste/agriculture/agri_fishf. htm> "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard". --- John W. Tukey (American statistician, 1915-2000) . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . ================================================================= . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
