ras@needle1.bellcore.com (Raymond A. Schnitzler) (03/29/88)
Is SPSS either PD or otherwise available for free? If anyone has any leads, drop me a line. Thanks, So remember to 'Hang by your work, Ray Schnitzler and write if you get thumbs.' Bell Communication Research
steve@acich.UUCP (Steve Westfall) (04/01/88)
In article <823@sword.bellcore.com>, ras@needle1.bellcore.com (Raymond A. Schnitzler) writes: > Is SPSS either PD or otherwise available for free? No, it is a commercial product. As I recall, the company that produces it is SPSS, Inc., and they are located on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Shell out those bucks! -- Steve Westfall Automated Concepts, Inc. - Chicago Phone: (312) 346-8640 UUCP Mail: {ihnp4|gargoyle}!acich!steve MCI Mail: SWESTFALL
mike@pcsbst.UUCP (Mike Schroeder) (04/05/88)
In article <823@sword.bellcore.com> schnitz@bellcore.com (Raymond A. Schnitzler) writes: >Is SPSS either PD or otherwise available for free? If anyone has any >leads, drop me a line. > I remember a while back, a customer of ours wanted SPSS on our machine. So we contacted the SPSS people and talked to them about a port. From their reaction at the time ("we port only to D*C, no unix port is planned, etc.etc.) I assume that you won't find SPSS free (it's not PD ;-(). I should mention that this is approx. 18 months ago, so their position may have changed in the meantime (if they're clever, it has ;-). Cheers Mike
dennis@uw-warp.UUCP (Dennis Gentry) (04/14/88)
>In article <823@sword.bellcore.com> schnitz@bellcore.com (Raymond A. Schnitzler) writes: >>Is SPSS either PD or otherwise available for free? If anyone has any >>leads, drop me a line. >> >I remember a while back, a customer of ours wanted SPSS on our machine. So >we contacted the SPSS people and talked to them about a port. From their >reaction at the time ("we port only to D*C, no unix port is planned, etc.etc.) >I assume that you won't find SPSS free (it's not PD ;-(). > >I should mention that this is approx. 18 months ago, so their position >may have changed in the meantime (if they're clever, it has ;-). I notice that the original poster is from bellcore. If this is the case, then he should be able to get a copy of S by Becker & Chambers of bellcore, which is remarkably much better than SPSS. S is definitely not public domain, but I bet for bellcore use it it free. For the rest of you, you can get S either from AT&T or (for at least Suns and Apollos) from Statistical Sciences, Inc. here in Seattle. I, for one, would like to see S replace SPSS and SAS, since I think it encourages better statistics. It's sure easier to use, and is significantly cheaper than SAS or SPSS. Disclaimer: I just interviewed with SSI, and I hope to be an employee soon. -- Dennis. ------- arpa: uw-nsr!uw-warp!dennis@beaver.cs.washington.edu usenet: {ihnp4|decvax|...}uw-beaver!uw-nsr!uw-warp!dennis