On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Dan Weitzenfeld
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> Just a heads up: in today's Times, there is an article about R.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
> SAS is given specific mention, but not Stata.
> I did a search of the archives for a thread comparing R and Stata, and
> I didn't turn up much. I wonder if this article is a good occasion
> for us to list all the pros of Stata over R. =)
Its a little dated as the versions of most of the software packages
have been updated, but the following article compares nine different
statistical packages, although personally I think it only compares
eight as Excel bears no sembelance to any proper statistical package
:-)
Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur, A comparative study of the
reliability of nine statistical software packages. Computational
Statistics & Data Analysis 51:3811-3831
Link on ScienceDirect :
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V8V-4JHMGWJ-1&_user=10&_coverDate=05%2F01%2F2007&_rdoc=17&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_srch=doc-info(%23toc%235880%232007%23999489991%23647702%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=5880&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=38&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=61b9b2bc2b945c2124db5b523a043101
Neil
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