SPSS vs. STATA
Found an interesting comparison between the features of SPSS and STATA (two statistical analysis packages), as provided by several statisticians on Windows Live Spaces:
SPSS Advantages:
- Slightly more user friendly in making complex tables & graphs
- Nice routines for testing interactions in logistic regression models
- Friendly ANOVA commands
- Generally easier to use
- Sophisticated survival analysis
STATA Advantages:
- Much easier to run a probit
- Much better documentation
- Can do a lot more procedures than SPSS
- Great company support, friendly user base
- Multiple pooled cross sectional time series routines
- Count procedures (poisson, negative binomial and zero routines)
- Maximum likelihood estimators (Tobit, multinomial logit, ordinal logit, ordinal probit)
- Huber-White correction for heteroskedascity
- More comprehensive ANOVA routines
- Cox regression
- Duration analysis procedures
- Capability to estimate models for complex surveys
- Better weighting capability (pweights vs. aweights and iweights)
- Ability to take clustering into account
- Lots of user written solutions
- Much better handling of longitudinal panel data
- Event history analysis capabilities
- Panel data analysis capabilities
- Faster development than SPSS
- Better leasing arrangement
What this all means to market researchers I cannot say — I generally in my day to day life do not use many of the statistical procedures they describe and I’ve never tried STATA.
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