RE: st: clinical trials

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 01:47 PM 1/4/2008, Verkuilen, Jay wrote:

> I agree with Phil Ender in his essay here 
> (http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/technicalreports/) that knowledge of 
> multiple packages is useful. Of mainstream packages, I prefer a 
> Stata/SAS teamup, which, as Phil notes, complement each other 
> nicely. (I also think knowledge of R is helpful.) SPSS is distinctly 
> lacking but has a few gems in among the large pile of tailings, 
> e.g., the MDS program proxscal or the ordinal regression module PLUM.
Self-promotional plug: The user-written -oglm- is patterned after 
SPSS PLUM and provides most of the same capabilities, as well as a 
few unique and/or Stata-ish features.  It is available from SSC.  The 
support page is at

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/oglm/index.html


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