berger@atropa (Dire Wolf) (11/22/90)
arpraym@ac.dal.ca writes: >I am looking for information on Statistical and graphical packages on the >PC. Mostly I am interested in a good al-round statistical package, and if >someone knows of one that has good graphing capabilities would you please >let me know, and include the price? I'm not sure if this is the place to post >I am a graduate student and the package should reflect the needs of a graduate >student of possible, ( ie in it's capabilities). *------- S-Plus is possibly the best all-around interactive/graphic statistics package, but it's expensive at $ 850. You might also consider Minitab (I don't know the full package price, but an abridged "student version" is $ 40). Also, NCSS is something of a bargain. It is not well-integrated, in that it's really a collection of many routines, but it does have most of the features of the more expensive statistics programs, and a lot of graphics options. -- Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (11/22/90)
In article <2302@ac.dal.ca> arpraym@ac.dal.ca writes: > > >I am looking for information on Statistical and graphical packages on the > >PC. Mostly I am interested in a good al-round statistical package, and if >someone knows of one that has good graphing capabilities would you please >let me know, and include the price? I'm not sure if this is the place to post >this request, but I couldn't find a IBM.PC.APP news. > >I am a graduate student and the package should reflect the needs of a graduate >student of possible, ( ie in it's capabilities). I recommend a package called Stata. Currently in version 2.1, it's a very well-written package. Strong points: - Unix version available, so skills you learn while using a PC while at graduate school won't be wasted when you start solving Real Problems and need more horsepower, - PC version uses EMS nicely, so pushing size of datasets is convenient, - does graphics to screen and printer, but the quality of pictures is not spectacular. It comes with a graphics editor program to edit the pictures further. - roughly one order of magnitude faster than SAS on doing anything, - Good set of base off-the-shelf statistical tools, and convenient ways to write your own tools. Telephone number: 1-800-STATAPC Call 'em! (Just a satisfied customer) -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu The more things change, the more they stay insane. _______________________________________________________________________________