Manuel,
People who cannot or don't want to pay for a statistical package can
use R.
http://www.r-project.org/
Friedrich Huebler
--- Manuel Ch�vez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nevertheless, for some of us in developing countries often is a
> burden not to be able to get the upgrades and last versions. The
> truth is, I believe, that STATA will make much greater benefit
> that what it does if it were open source. I'm sure that some
> financial mechanism could be found to support the infraestructure
> and I almost sure that it's development is not due to copy rights,
> and maybe a faster and broader development could be reach in an
> open source format. Just think on STATA as a vaccine, it is in
> some way a need.
>
> Manuel
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