On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Jim Lemon wrote: > Charilaos Skiadas wrote: >> Not having a background in SPSS would put these students at a >> disadvantage." >> >> Is this really the case? Does anyone have any such statistics? >> > Unfortunately not statistics, but my experience in nearly every > (psychology) research unit in which I have worked is that my colleagues > initially expected me to use SPSS and reeled back in horror if I said > that I preferred something else. They took anywhere from weeks to > forever to realize that they were getting at least as good, and in many > cases better, analyses of their data. [spacing added]
> For many people, statistical software is a belief, not an understanding. Another candidate for 'fortunes'? [...] Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098 Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine E mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UC San Diego http://biostat.ucsd.edu/~cberry/ La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0717 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.