Comparison between SPSS and other statistical pakages

[Rubier Perez]

Hello, to  you all.
I would like to know to which extent SPSS is superior to Minitab,
Statgraphics, Statistica, SAS, PSPP, NCSS, Matlab, Stata and R. I
mean, which aspects make the difference when comparing SPSS to each to
the rest of the statistical pakages.
Thanks in advance,
Rubier



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[Martha Hewett]

Here are a couple of items you might want to check out:

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/technicalreports/Number1/ucla_ATSstat_tr1_1.0.pdf
http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-popularity-of-data-analysis-software-r-vs-sas-vs-spss-etc/




From:        Rubier Perez <[hidden email]>
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Date:        09/20/2012 01:41 PM
Subject:        Comparison between SPSS and other statistical pakages
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Hello, to  you all.
I would like to know to which extent SPSS is superior to Minitab,
Statgraphics, Statistica, SAS, PSPP, NCSS, Matlab, Stata and R. I
mean, which aspects make the difference when comparing SPSS to each to
the rest of the statistical pakages.
Thanks in advance,
Rubier



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[Mark Miller]

You can add Bob Muenchen's home page where comparisons

are updated several times a year

"The Popularity of Data Analysis Software"

http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/

He also had a 2006 comparison paper entitled

"R for SAS and SPSS users" which he updated 

several times and eventually parlayed into a

book published by Springer-Verlag.

However, if you just browse through the Wikipedia entries

"List of Statistical Packages" and "Comparison of Statistical Packages"

then I would hope that you can imagine the difficulty and expense

of any broad and/or deep comparison of statistical packages.

... Mark Miller

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Martha Hewett <[hidden email]> wrote:

Here are a couple of items you might want to check out:

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/technicalreports/Number1/ucla_ATSstat_tr1_1.0.pdf
http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-popularity-of-data-analysis-software-r-vs-sas-vs-spss-etc/




From:        Rubier Perez <[hidden email]>
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Date:        09/20/2012 01:41 PM
Subject:        Comparison between SPSS and other statistical pakages
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Hello, to  you all.
I would like to know to which extent SPSS is superior to Minitab,
Statgraphics, Statistica, SAS, PSPP, NCSS, Matlab, Stata and R. I
mean, which aspects make the difference when comparing SPSS to each to
the rest of the statistical pakages.
Thanks in advance,
Rubier



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[Bruce Weaver]

What I like about the first link Martha gives below is that Michael Mitchell actually has a fair bit of experience with each of the three packages being compared, although he confesses to having more experience with Stata IIRC.  Too often, these discussions degenerate into "my package is better than your package"* pissing contests, with most of the combatants being largely ignorant of what the other packages can actually do.  

If your institution has access to it, you could also look at this short note by Alan Acock:

  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2005.00196.x/full

HTH.

* I'll be curious to see what people do with a set-up like that.  ;-)

Martha Hewett wrote

Here are a couple of items you might want to check out:

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/technicalreports/Number1/ucla_ATSstat_tr1_1.0.pdf
http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-popularity-of-data-analysis-software-r-vs-sas-vs-spss-etc/




From:   Rubier Perez <[hidden email]>
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Date:   09/20/2012 01:41 PM
Subject:        Comparison between SPSS and other statistical pakages
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Hello, to  you all.
I would like to know to which extent SPSS is superior to Minitab,
Statgraphics, Statistica, SAS, PSPP, NCSS, Matlab, Stata and R. I
mean, which aspects make the difference when comparing SPSS to each to
the rest of the statistical pakages.
Thanks in advance,
Rubier



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[Jon K Peck]

Bear in mind that the first reference is six years old and does not mention the large amount of change that has happened since.

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
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From:        Bruce Weaver <[hidden email]>
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Date:        09/20/2012 03:07 PM
Subject:        Re: [SPSSX-L] Comparison between SPSS and other statistical              pakages
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What I like about the first link Martha gives below is that Michael Mitchell
actually has a fair bit of experience with each of the three packages being
compared, although he confesses to having more experience with Stata IIRC.
Too often, these discussions degenerate into "my package is better than your
package"* pissing contests, with most of the combatants being largely
ignorant of what the other packages can actually do.

If your institution has access to it, you could also look at this short note
by Alan Acock:

 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2005.00196.x/full

HTH.

* I'll be curious to see what people do with a set-up like that.  ;-)



Martha Hewett wrote
> Here are a couple of items you might want to check out:
>
> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/technicalreports/Number1/ucla_ATSstat_tr1_1.0.pdf
> http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-popularity-of-data-analysis-software-r-vs-sas-vs-spss-etc/
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> From:   Rubier Perez &lt;

> rubier@.sld

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> Date:   09/20/2012 01:41 PM
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> Hello, to  you all.
> I would like to know to which extent SPSS is superior to Minitab,
> Statgraphics, Statistica, SAS, PSPP, NCSS, Matlab, Stata and R. I
> mean, which aspects make the difference when comparing SPSS to each to
> the rest of the statistical pakages.
> Thanks in advance,
> Rubier
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