Greetings
Last December we announced a draft version of Technical Report Number
1 titled "Strategically using General Purpose Statistics Packages: A
Look at Stata, SAS and SPSS". I received many emails with extremely
helpful feedback and constructive comments. I am very grateful to all
those who wrote and generously took time to share their thoughts. In
light of these comments I have made many revisions and updates to the
report and have posted Version 1.0 of the report which can be found at
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/technicalreports/.
As always, I continue to welcome feedback on this report to improve it
for future versions (e.g. Version 1.1 and so forth). Also, I am working
on a second technical report "Strategically using Special Purpose
Statistics Packages" that will focus on the strategic use of special
purpose packages (e.g. Stat/Transfer, DBMS/Copy, SUDAAN, WesVar, Mplus,
PASS, Nquery, EQS, LISREL, AMOS, HLM, MLwiN, LatentGOLD, as well as
special purpose functionality found within Stata, SAS and SPSS). I would
welcome suggestions and thoughts as I begin to work on developing this
new report.
Finally, I am not always able to monitor this list, so if you would
like to share comments with me and with this list, please cc: me
personally by email to be sure I see your email.
Happy reading!
Michael Mitchell
UCLA ATS Statistical Consulting Group
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/
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