Dear all,
in last weeks you discussed about R vs SAS.
I want to ask your opinion about a comparison between
R and SPSS. I don't know this software, but some weeks
ago I went to a presentation of this product. I found
it really user-friendly with GUI (even if I'd prefer
command line) and very
Hi,
Le 25 nov. 04, à 13:15, Vito Ricci a écrit :
command line) and very usefull and simple to use in
I do not know R so much, nor SPSS.
Then I appreciate SPSS, because tools are very practical to use.
Every transformation, model analysis are easily made.
In the other hand, let me say it doesn't
Vito Ricci wrote:
Dear all,
in last weeks you discussed about R vs SAS.
I want to ask your opinion about a comparison between
R and SPSS. I don't know this software, but some weeks
ago I went to a presentation of this product. I found
it really user-friendly with GUI (even if I'd prefer
command
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Envoyé : jeudi 25 novembre 2004 15:57
À : Vito Ricci
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Objet : Re: [R] R vs SPSS
Vito Ricci wrote:
Dear all,
in last weeks you discussed about R vs SAS.
I want to ask your opinion about a comparison between
R and SPSS
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
What worries me about SPSS is that it often results in poor statistical
practice. The defaults in dialog boxes are not very good in some cases,
and like SAS, SPSS tends to lead users to make to many assumptions
(linearity in regression being one of the key ones).
--
As I started out using SPSS when there was no GUI (in fact, no interactive
interface at all), I automatically open up the syntax editing window when I
have to use it. It's a workable text editor, you can run all or part of the
code at will, and build up a code file in much the same way as R.
