If you are a SPSS, SAS, or Stata user who finds yourself needing to use R (I mean, it’s free), I just found this great website: http://statmethods.net/index.html.
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Quick-R: A guide for SPSS, SAS, and Stata Users
August 20th, 2009 by Karen Grace-MartinSPSS, SAS, R, Stata, JMP? Choosing a Statistical Software Package or Two
March 16th, 2009 by Karen Grace-MartinIn addition to the five listed in this title, there are quite a few other options, so how do you choose which statistical software to use?
The default is to use whatever software they used in your statistics class–at least you know the basics.
And this might turn out pretty well, but chances are it will fail you at some point. Many times the stat package used in a class is chosen for its shallow learning curve, (more…)