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From: dennis@uw-warp.UUCP (Dennis Gentry)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) ?
Message-ID: <293@uw-warp.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 07:52:33 GMT
References: <823@sword.bellcore.com> <194@pcsbst.UUCP>
Organization: The Warp, Seattle, WA
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In-reply-to: mike@pcsbst.UUCP's message of 5 Apr 88 07:55:26 GMT



>In article <823@sword.bellcore.com> schnitz@bellcore.com (Raymond A. Schnitzler) writes:
>>Is SPSS either PD or otherwise available for free?  If anyone has any
>>leads, drop me a line.
>>
>I remember a while back, a customer of ours wanted SPSS on our machine. So
>we contacted the SPSS people and talked to them about a port. From their
>reaction at the time ("we port only to D*C, no unix port is planned, etc.etc.)
>I assume that you won't find SPSS free (it's not PD ;-().
>
>I should mention that this is approx. 18 months ago, so their position
>may have changed in the meantime (if they're clever, it has ;-).

I notice that the original poster is from bellcore.  If this is the
case, then he should be able to get a copy of S by Becker & Chambers
of bellcore, which is remarkably much better than SPSS.  S is
definitely not public domain, but I bet for bellcore use it it free.  

For the rest of you, you can get S either from AT&T or (for at least
Suns and Apollos) from Statistical Sciences, Inc. here in Seattle.  I,
for one, would like to see S replace SPSS and SAS, since I think it
encourages better statistics.  It's sure easier to use, and is
significantly cheaper than SAS or SPSS.

Disclaimer:  I just interviewed with SSI, and I hope to be an employee
soon. 

-- 
Dennis.
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