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Re: st: AW: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...


From   Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: AW: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
Date   Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:16:32 +0000

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That would be great if people used the standard citations. Some fields
> routinely don't mention software used and oddly enough articles in the R
> Journal do not cite R, as it's assumed that's what they're about.
> Someone on the R list found the standard citation misspelled a bunch of
> ways. Maddening!
>

Yep, I realise the limitations, but it was another angle that hadn't
been mentioned.

Personally I will endeavour to ensure that Stata, R or any other
software is correctly cited in any papers/work that I'm involved in.

Neil

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