I was a SAS user from the mainframe days until about 1995. I liked the
software but the yearly lease was prohibitive.
I tested several stat packages at that time and settled on Statistica.
I have no regrets. Their ads are every bit the truth. It's a great
package, well worth the $1,000. Rumor has it the package is alien
technology from the Roswell, NM crash. This is probably not true
because the statistics are very up to date.
I have a colleague who swears by NCSS, but I've never used it. The
$300 price tag sounds cheap for what it's supposed to do. Maybe it's
alien technology.
I've never warmed up to Minitab. I guess I know too many rabid Penn
Staters who think it's the second coming of SAS.
Statgraphics? Well I've never recovered from our first meeting in the
late 1980s.
Charlie
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 19:53:04 GMT, "AJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am interested in opinions on the Statistica package. I have always used
>SPSS, but now that I need to buy my own program, I am intrigued by
>Statistica. Not surprisingly, their ads are very compelling. I need a
>general, broad-based package with basic stats, GLM, regression, survival
>analysis, and graphics. I have used SPSS since the mainframe days, but I am
>Statistica (and Systat) appear to provide excellent value. I am a
>behavioral science researcher with a moderate to strong background in
>applied multivariate analysis (not a statistician). Any comments?
>Thanks. -- Al J.
>
>
>
Charlie Kufs
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