pyle@ut-ngp.UUCP (05/15/84)
A research group with which I am associated has a PC that has been
primarily used for business (i.e., bookkeeping) and text processing
functions. We would like to begin using it for some data management
and analytical functions. Specifically, we would be storing patient
medical data and retrieving it for statistical summaries such as
frequency tables, analysis of variance, and computation of regression
lines.
I'm relatively new to this group and the only message I've seen
relating to this was one request for DBMS information. I would
appreciate any comments on available packages, both good and bad.
Thanks.
Keith Pyle
UUCP: . . .{ihnp4,seismo,ctvax,kpno,gatech}!ut-sally!ut-ngp!pyle
ARPA: pyle@ut-ngpdafa@ihuxa.UUCP (David Fay) (05/16/84)
The best statistical package for the PC is SYSTAT available from SYSTAT, Inc., 1127 Asbury Ave., Evanston, IL 60202, (312) 864-5670. This package is numerically more accurate than BMDP, SAS, and SPSS running on mainframes and can also execute faster for many problems. It is reviewed along with some fifteen or so other packages in last month's BYTE (in fact the review was held up three months so the reviewer could test SYSTAT, which just came out). David Fay ihuxa!dafa -- David Fay ihuxa!dafa