SAS, SPSS, or Systat?

[Thomas Petzoldt Hydrobiologie]

jnipp at cc.emory.edu (Jeffrey  Nipp) writes:


>We have access to site liscenced copies of the windows versions of SAS, 
>SPSS and Systat.  We are looking for an easy to use stat package which 
>will handle clinical research studies with tens to hundreds of patients 
>and multiple variables.  I am nearly statistics illiterate, and the rest 
>of the lab is not much better, so HELP facilities are a big plus as 
>well.  Any suggestions on which package would be best?  From looking at 
>the manuals, Systat looks to be the easiest to use, but we'd like to hear 
>it form someone who knows what they are talking about!  :)

We have the same problem, but there is still another statistical
package STATISTICA for Windows, which is very (!!!) powerful.
I have seen it on my collegues PC.

Now I ask me what to by for me and for the students.

Thomas
petzoldt at tudurz.urz.tu-dresden.de