How do the following programs compare on (a) learning curve, and
(b) utility for basic-ish stats procedures such as regression, ANOVA,
MANOVA, and (c) ease of data handling, e.g., importing from Excel.
R
OpenStat
PSPP
Osiris
I hope this is the correct forum for this question. If not, perhaps
someone could suggest another place to ask it.
How do the following programs compare on (a) learning curve, and (b)
utility for basic-ish stats procedures such as regression, ANOVA,
MANOVA, and (c) ease of data handling, e.g., importing from Excel.
I currently use SPSS and work with social science statistics.
Here's the list (other suggestions also welcome):
R
OpenStat
PSPP
Osiris
Thank you.
Esther
I hope this is the correct forum for this question. If not, perhaps someone could suggest another place to ask it.
How do the following programs compare on (a) learning curve, and (b) utility for basic-ish stats procedures such as regression, ANOVA, MANOVA, and (c) ease of data handling, e.g., importing from Excel.
I currently use SPSS and work with social science statistics.
Here's the list (other suggestions also welcome):
R
OpenStat
PSPP
Osiris
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 05:28:41 -0800 (PST), Esther <alizadov@gmail.com>
wrote:
I hope this is the correct forum for this question. If not, perhaps someone could suggest another place to ask it.
How do the following programs compare on (a) learning curve, and (b) utility for basic-ish stats procedures such as regression, ANOVA, MANOVA, and (c) ease of data handling, e.g., importing from Excel.
I currently use SPSS and work with social science statistics.
Here's the list (other suggestions also welcome):
R
OpenStat
PSPP
Osiris
It looks like a nice over-view at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_statistical_software
I don't remember anything about OpenStat or Osiris.
In addition to what I see in the Wikip article --
PSPP was mentioned a umpteen years ago in the SPSS
group -- It was (originally) provided as a free version
of SPSS, so it was similar to SPSS but always behind.
My wild guess would be that IO would be behind, as
would the fanciest new procedures. Since Wikip says
that there is a List, you should browse there.
IIRC, R was initially (30+ years ago) a similar sort of substitute
for an expensive and sophisticated commercial package
called S. I haven't heard S mentioned in a long time, but
R has thrived. It now has a collection of programs and
procedures contributed by a large number of specialists,
which are, not-infrequently, state-of-the-art. There are
programs that SPSS makes available /only/ by using the
plugin for accessing R. There is a mailing list, and R has
a good reputation for its maintainers being good about
tackling reported errors.
Compared to using SPSS, coding data manipulations in
R is more like writing for the Matrix parser than writing
ordinary syntax. I think.
I think R does not have the nice features of SPSS
(or SAS) for easily editing and labeling variables; nor, the
features for editing output files, if you want those.
[Does it create plain text?]
--
Rich Ulrich
Thanks to all who wrote.
Now I have a followup - does anyone know which one of the free programs would be good for path analysis?
Thanks again.
-Esther
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