stat packages

2000-09-08 Thread AJ
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, a

Re: Statistical- or correlation- or .... analysis of data ?

2000-08-14 Thread AJ
"Donald Burrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > This sounds as though you have a N-by-T data matrix: N cases or > observations (as rows in the matrix), and T variables (as columns). > If you had something else in mind, my subsequent remarks may

Statistical- or correlation- or .... analysis of data ?

2000-08-13 Thread AJ
Hi I'm having trouble in choosing the right method to analyse a large dataset. I have N data, consisting of measured responses fn(t) all of the same length T. Each fn(t) can be considered to have one part, fsame(t), that is the same throughout the dataset and another that is varying, fn_different