heath@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Todd Heatherton) (09/08/88)
I posted a note about three months ago about statistics packages for the IBM pc family. The responses were varied, but I think I can recommend two packages 1. If you have +21 mbytes of space and a co-processor, SAS-pc is for you, it combines most of the procedures from the mainframe program and is only moderately difficult to use, it is a "serious" language for those who care to learn. If you do not have a hard drive or are in educational statistics, PowerStat garnered the most votes as the package you should look into. It requires 192K and works well with with two drive or hard disk systems. PowerStat is apparently used by many teaching institutions because it comes with a 192 page intro training manula and 490 page technical refernce manual. Since it does many of the needed stats procedures simply and logically, many users recommended it for other users. In summary-- If you want stats (and all the stats), get SAS-pc or PowerStat Both should be available from your local distrbutor. I hope this has been helpful, send me e-mail if you have questions, Todd Heatherton (aka "terrible typist")
emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh) (09/14/88)
In article <1988Sep8.003157.2776@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> heath@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Todd Heatherton) writes: >In summary-- If you want stats (and all the stats), get SAS-pc or PowerStat >Both should be available from your local distrbutor. --------------------------------------------------- Unless SAS has changed, you can only get site licenses (read EXPENSIVE). Last I heard, there were still Universities in the Triangle (e.g., Duke) who will not get the license because of the restrictions placed on the software. No better way to kill a software package than to make it virtually impossible to get! -- Ted H. Emigh, Dept. Genetics and Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC uucp: mcnc!ncsuvx!ncsugn!emigh internet: emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu BITNET: emigh%ncsugn@MCNC.UUCP or emigh%ncsugn@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu