Re: st: Software for Epidemiological, Longitudinal Data

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

On 6 I�il 2006, at 12:44, Sebastian Baumeister wrote:

> Certainly, SAS is the package that is most widespread in medicine  
> (at least in Europe). But Stata is becoming more and more accepted  
> among epidemiological/ public health researchers. Just check the  
> top-notch journals (as measured by the impact factor ;) ) and you  
> will find a lot of papers using Stata (eg, Jama, 2006,295(6):676-80).
Two minutes on the JAMA site gave the following information: in full  
text articles since 1992, mention of specific statistical packages is  
as follows:

SAS: 974 papers
Stata: 287 papers
SPSS; 246 papers
Other packages (SPlus, Statistica, Egret, NCSS, JMP) 20 each or fewer


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