In article <3jjpar$pjn at nntp.Stanford.EDU>, ting at roses (Lena Ting) says:
>>Hi, my lab is on the market for some statistical software.
>>We are considering purchasing the Mac version of SAS, and have also
>received a mailing with special offer from GB-STAT 5.0 for
>Neuroscience members that looks intriguing. Also, someone has
>recommended DataDesk to me, and I am trying out the package.
>>Does anyone have experience with these packages? Which would you
>recommend for overall ease of use, number of tests offered,
>manipulating data within the package, graphing capabilites, etc?
>I'm interested primarily in ANOVA analyses, and would like be able to
>easily transform data and perform the same tests on large numbers of
>data files.
>>Please send responses by email or to this group.
>>Thanks,
>>Lena Ting
Try STATISTICA for MacIntosh (Statsoft, Tulsa, Oklahoma). I've only tried the Windows
version, but think The Mac version is the same. It has excellent graphics and very
user friendly statistics options. Most kinds of ANOVA will work well, but STATISTICA
does not offer the maximum likelihood algorithm, which reduces its usefullness with respect
to unbalanced designs. In my experience only BMDP does that well, which is sad because
its such a terribly unelegant DOS thing.
Jon Henrik Laake, MD
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