Nick has a good point here. If you can point and click in SPSS you can
point and click in Stata. I would even say that Stata's labeling of the
different statistical options in the GUI is more intuitive.
Carter
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Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:53 AM
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Subject: RE: st: Stata vs SPSS
Turn and turn about, official Stata is also, remember,
mostly available through menus and dialogs. Thus while
researchers generally are very positive about the command-line
interface, it is not compulsory -- unless you are using
most user-written commands and are reluctant to write
your own dialogs.
I virtually never use the Stata GUI even --
so can people knowing both say how SPSS and Stata
compare in ease of GUI use?
Nick
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> Can SPSS be used entirely from a command-line interface? If
> so, it would
> be interesting to see your students' reactions if you allowed
> SPSS, but
> only via command-line--no mouse-clicking. In other words,
> required them
> to submit the SPSS equivalent of do-files. This would be a way of
> separating their love of SPSS (of which I am skeptical) from
> their love of
> pretty mouse-driven GUIs (which I am hypothesizing is more the issue.)
>
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