Re: st: Stata and biology/biomedical sciences

[Ronan Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

There is also the observation that the actual volume of research in  
medicine and related sciences is vast in comparison with research in  
many other areas, and the reliance of modern medicine on statistically- 
based data analysis is almost total.

For this reason alone, I would guess that the large number of biostats  
people may reflect the fact that biostats is probably the largest  
continent in the statistics world, certainly in terms of demand for  
data analysis.

That said, however, we adopted Stata without hesitation for our Health  
Service Research PhD programme because it was the only package that  
did everything everyone wanted the students to learn.

However, as jverkuilen remarked, it's amazing the tribal loyalty of  
psychologists to SPSS - and their insistence that it's a really easy  
package, despite the fact that they spend ages transferring their  
results by hand to Excel to make awful bar charts. Or is this latter  
habit peculiarly Irish?



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