On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Christopher Green went:
SPSS is still quite common here among the general run of grad students, but it is generally regarded as the "lesser" of various products. SAS is preferred by people who are a little more stats-intensive. And everyone who considers (or intends) statistical methods to be one of their areas of expertise uses R.
If you intend to work with repeated-measures data in which any datapoints are missing (or with predictors that vary over time), SAS and R offer procedures more powerful and flexible than SPSS does. Where I work, SPSS users frequently come to me so I can deal with their data in SAS's Proc Mixed or Proc Glimmix. Oh--many of those procedures can also be done with this freeware <http://tigger.uic.edu/~hedeker/mix.html>, but I haven't tried it. --David Epstein [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=18214 or send a blank email to leave-18214-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
