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- From: steve@alder.lle.rochester.edu (Steve Swales)
- Subject: Recommendation for statistics package, please
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- Organization: UofR Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 00:30:46 GMT
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- Greetings. I've been watching for an FAQ list in this group, but
- haven't seen one. I apologize for this obvious FAQ, but, can someone
- please recommend general purpose interactive statistical package(s) to
- run on workstation (e.g. Sun SPARC) and possibly other non-PC
- computers (e.g. VAX/VMS), and where to obtain them? We are in need of
- phasing out RS1 on our VAX, because it is too expensive for the
- limited use which is made of it. I'm trying to talk with BBN
- Software, Inc. about their workstation version of RS1, and waiting for
- information from them on this and their new product (all I know so far
- is that they have SOMETHING new), but I believe there must be far
- newer and surely better products out there. The other package I know
- exists is SAS, but have no other information about it. I would very
- much appreciate knowing where to call/write to get more information
- about SAS and any other packages which people recommend (or recommend
- AGAINST). Valuable features would be:
- 1) Interactive and programmable.
- 2) Full complement of statistical analysis capabilites (obvious?).
- 3) Good plotting capability (PostScript & X, at least).
- 4) Access to external SQL databases (Ingres).
- 5) Ability to 'import' existing RS1 data and procedures would
- be great, but probably not a realistic expectation.
-
- Please reply by e-mail if possible. I will summarize to this group
- (sci.math.stat) if there is interest.
-
- Thanks,
-
- -steve
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