I, too, began my career with SPSS. Over 10 years ago, I made the move to Stata. Hands down, Stata wins. I still have the most current version of SPSS/PASW--because I can get it through my university at a very low cost, bundled with the structural equation software, AMOS. Otherwise, I'd leave it behind.
I supplement Stata with R and, occasionally, SAS.
Scott R Millis, PhD, ABPP (CN,CL,RP), CStat, CSci
Professor & Director of Research
Dept of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Dept of Emergency Medicine
Wayne State University School of Medicine
261 Mack Blvd
Detroit, MI 48201
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 313-993-8085
Fax: 313-966-7682
--- On Sat, 7/18/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: Switching from SPSS to Stata
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009, 4:55 PM
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I'm working as a research analyst in public health since
> 1990. I've always
> used Spss for my statistical analysis (the current version
> I have is the
> outdated 12.1 release). I always work with the Spss syntax
> language, almost
> never with the GUI (maybe one or two times a year).
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