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Major statistical software?
I am wondering which statistical softwares are most widely used in the industry? SPlus, SAS, Eviews...?
Major statistical software?
You might want to look at Systat [now part of SPSS] for user friendly Windows. Mostly for non-econometric work. RATS from Estima for Econometric and Time Series, on Windows and UNIX
Major statistical software?
R! you can download it by googling "CRAN". it's statistically "safe as f00k"
Major statistical software?
Anyone know if Stata is used frequently or semi-frequently? I've seen it a lot in economics departments and business schools (and spent a bit over a year learning it).
Major statistical software?
QuoteOriginally posted by: wolf87Anyone know if Stata is used frequently or semi-frequently? I've seen it a lot in economics departments and business schools (and spent a bit over a year learning it).Same. And the math dept. uses SPSS (and R). I like stata since it is fast and easy to use. Bit tougher to customize than R, but if you need a quick acf, pacf, adf, etc. stat then it's good.
Major statistical software?
I would say matlab then splus.Others are used, but these seem to be the main ones. Of course there is also the ubiquitous Excel if that counts.
Major statistical software?
I would say that the frequency of use would depend on what you are doing. Excel is probably the base just because everyone has it. SAS is used by my firm because we usually handle large datasets through a mainframe. E-views is great for time series data (it has a lot of the built-in features already and you don't have to worry too much about manually programming the stuff in) and I like MATLAB a lot (especially if I have to customize models).