On Sep 14, "Marilyn Saarni" wrote:
> Dear All -
>
> I am setting up a new system for a user who finally has decided to
> make the leap from MacOS 9 to OS 10 (and a new beautiful portable
> "loaded for bear"), and I have just checked on one of her software
> packages that I wasn't familiar with: Systat. Of course, knowing
> the company, I should have been suspicious at an earlier point.
> Turns out there is no Mac version of Systat.
>
> So now the user is terribly distressed. She said the whole reason
> she is making the jump to OS 10 was to use Systat.
>
> Can anyone recommend another Mac-friendly product that would help her
> achieve the same results? When I did some research, it looked as if
> Aabel might do it--but I know nobody who uses it.
>
> My own research team does modeling, but they use products like
> Matlab, Profit or Jmp, not a statistical package specifically.
>
> I'm sure that the VirtualPC option will cause too much deterioration
> in performance to make it worthwhile.
The two programs that come to mind are STATA and SPSS. SPSS seems to be
one of those companies whose Mac support lags, it took them like 3 months
to get their product working on Tiger after Tiger hit the streets. I seem
to recall hearing good things about STATA.
Mike
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