Norm Matloff wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry House)
Subject: [vox-tech] Statistical software
A visitor to the demo at the Davis Food Co-op this weekend asked about
software for statistical analysis and mentioned SPSS. Since I do most of my
statistical analysis in Gnumeric and do not use a dedicated analysis
program, I was not able to mention a comparable application for Linux. What
do you use? I later found out about Gnu PSPP, supposed to be a Free clone of
SPSS --- does anyone use this?
In my opinion, as someone with a background in both CS and statistics
(I'm a former statistics professor), R is the best package, either open
source or commercial. (I even consider it a little better than S-Plus, a
commercial product which it is closely related to.) It is statistically
correct (which arguably SPSS is not),
Ni Norm,
Can you speculate on why SPSS is not statistically correct? I have
rarely used SPSS (I use SAS), but curiosity just killed the cat :-)
and it is a general programming language,
something people on this list can relate to.
I have a quick mini-tutorial on R at
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html
Since I myself will be using R heavily during the next couple of weeks,
I probably will be making frequent additions to the tutorial.
Looking forward to the tutorial.
Sameer
--
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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