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 usefull and simple to use in creation and managing tables, OLAP tecniques, pivot table. What you think about? Cordially Vito ====Diventare costruttori di soluzioni Became solutions' constructors "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." George E. P. Box Visitate il portale http://www.modugno.it/ e in particolare la sezione su Palese http://www.modugno.it/archivio/palese/
Hi, Le 25 nov. 04, ?? 13:15, Vito Ricci a ??crit :> 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 run on Mac OS X 10.3 (only on Mac OS X 10.2), then the software editor didn't manage to update its product. R's communauty does. R is really made to make big computations on big servers, that's not SPSS cup of tea. Laurent
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 line) and very usefull and simple to use in > creation and managing tables, OLAP tecniques, pivot > table. > What you think about? > Cordially > Vito >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). -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University