Frank Harrell has written an extensive and well-organized comparison of SAS
and S/R/S-Plus. Many of the advantages/disadvantages apply to a comparison
of SAS with Stata and may help in structuring your argument.
Check out pages 11 to 18 in the following document:
http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/doc/splus.pdf
Lee Sieswerda, Epidemiologist
Thunder Bay District Health Unit
[email protected]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 2:05 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: request for help with stata v sas
>
>
> A thread on this started on 27 November 2002.
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2002-11/maillist.html#00524
>
> Is there a SAS list on which you can also ask for
> opinions, or do you just want ammunition?
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Alexander, Cindy
>
> > I've been asked for a list of advantages of stata over sas.
> > This is a
> > standard topic that arises in allocating software budgets,
> > so I'm hoping
> > somebody out there can help. (I understand some journal
> > articles exist on
> > this topic, and would be grateful if you could perhaps
> > point me in the right
> > direction).
>
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