It depends.
What kinds of stat will you do?
How much value do you put on your time?
What disciplines do you work with?
Who can you get help from?
Who will go over you syntax and outputs to check your work?
If you need to do a great deal of data transformation (e.g., recoding)
and will be dealing with many kinds of data from different sources,
then I would choose SPSS. It has the best human factors in GUI,
consistency of syntax across procedures, vocabulary choice, clarity of
documentation, and clarity of syntax code.
However, if your data is seldom messy, pick a package that someone who can
give you guidance uses. STATA SYSTAT MINITAB may be very good choices.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need to find a statistical software packages. Most of my statistical
> work has been done using Microsoft Excel. This has worked out fine,
> however, I need to find a more heavy duty package but nothing over
> whelming. I perform some simple statistical work but would like to
> begin to use a more powerful package. Any suggestion would be great.
>
> Thnaks
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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