Good Statistical Packages

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Alexander Volovics wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:11:55PM -1000, Ping-Wu Zhang wrote:
>
>> Could anyone recommend any good statistical package(s)?  Does anyone
>> know whether there is any SPSS or SAS clone?  Thanks.
>
> If the license fee is not an objection ($615.00 for single user
> with Base Documentation Set) I highly recomend Stata:
> http://www.stata.com/
> Maybe you can get you company/institute or university dept. to order it
> for you. It is a bit easier to master than R and still cheaper than SAS.

If the license fee is not an issue, I beleive that SAS is available for 
Linux as well (although Alexander may be correct about the relative cost).

>
> However the advice depends on what you need it for.
> Any package can produce simple summaries, graphs and the classical
> analyses. However if you need things like certain random effects models
> you might only be able to find the necessary tools in SAS for
> example. (Programming something yourself in R is not very enjoyable).
>
> Alexander
>
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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