Re: Statistical software

2001-09-15 Thread Dave Braze
Agent V.M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in 9o04kp$ahrmt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:9o04kp$ahrmt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I need some good statistical software. Possibly warez which can be downloaded from the Inetrnet. http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/

Re: Statistical Software

2000-05-04 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Tue, 2 May 2000 10:23:42 +0200, John Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... It depends. What kinds of stat will you do? How much value do you put on your time? What disciplines do you work with? Who can you get help from? Who

Re: Statistical Software

2000-05-03 Thread Art Kendall
For a variety of reasons, I would recommend first getting SPSS down cold. Its vocabulary, user interface, and available procedures are the most useful in doing a wide variety of jobs. SPSS is the easiest package to "index" and "reference". (technical procedure terms crucial in evaluation and

Re: Statistical Software

2000-05-02 Thread dennis roberts
but, another alternative is to think about not ONE package ... but perhaps 2 ... sure, to become comfortable with both, it takes more time BUT, many packages allow for pretty good inter changeability of worksheets AND ... there are some student editions that would keep the cost down ... i

Re: Statistical Software

2000-05-02 Thread John Hendrickx
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... It depends. What kinds of stat will you do? How much value do you put on your time? What disciplines do you work with? Who can you get help from? Who will go over you syntax and outputs to check your work? If you need to do a great

Re: Statistical Software

2000-05-02 Thread mattcfenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SAlbert) wrote: Cheryl makes a good point: the "right" package depends on what the user wants to do. MINITAB might be a good choice -- or SPSS, or any of dozens of others. Is the application area psychology? Biology? Economics?

Re: Statistical Software

2000-05-02 Thread Gordon Sande
On Tue, 02 May 2000 13:34:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SAlbert) wrote: Cheryl makes a good point: the "right" package depends on what the user wants to do. MINITAB might be a good choice -- or SPSS, or any of dozens of others. Is the

Re: Statistical Software

2000-05-02 Thread Richard Goldstein
As a statistician who works on large class-action lawsuits for various attorneys, I respond by saying that I do all work for these cases in Stata (http://www.stata.com) and I use both DBMS/COPY and Stat/Transfer for import and export issues. The speed, flexibility and power of Stata are, for

Re: Statistical Software

2000-05-01 Thread Art Kendall
It depends. What kinds of stat will you do? How much value do you put on your time? What disciplines do you work with? Who can you get help from? Who will go over you syntax and outputs to check your work? If you need to do a great deal of data transformation (e.g., recoding) and will be

Re: Statistical Software

2000-05-01 Thread Uplandcrow
Not to advertise, but for time-series SHAZAM is hard to surpass. Unfortunately my university has spent big bucks on SPSS and expects us to only use SPSS to teach. === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less

Re: Statistical Software

2000-04-30 Thread SAlbert
Cheryl makes a good point: the "right" package depends on what the user wants to do. MINITAB might be a good choice -- or SPSS, or any of dozens of others. Is the application area psychology? Biology? Economics? Meteorology? Demography? Chemistry? Do we need regression? Cross-tabs?

Re: Statistical Software

2000-04-28 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to find a statistical software packages. Most of my statistical work has been done using Microsoft Excel. This has worked out fine, however, I need to find a more heavy duty package but nothing over whelming. I perform some simple

Re: Statistical Software

2000-04-28 Thread dennis roberts
see http://www.e-academy.com ... for lots of software ... including minitab at 'rental' prices ... At 02:04 PM 4/28/00 -0400, Donald F. Burrill wrote: On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to find a statistical software packages. Most of my statistical work has been done using