Re: AW: st: AW: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

Some "subscribers" are actually distributors who forward the messages on 
the list.

m.p.

On 6/20/2010 12:02 PM, Martin Weiss wrote:
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> So the digest seems to boast 1,845 subscribers at the moment.
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> HTH
> Martin
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> Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Martin Weiss
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. Juni 2010 17:57
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: AW: st: AW: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
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> " Do
> you know where on Statalist it shows the number of subscribers?"
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> Send "who Statalist" in the body of an email to
> majordomo@hsphsun2.harvard.edu while being a subscriber. The result at this
> point in time is 1,847 for the real thing, the digest should have a similar
> number. Also note my own research on similar questions at
> http://www.stata.com/meeting/dcconf09/dc09_weiss.pdf
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> HTH
> Martin
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> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Muenchen,
> Robert A (Bob)
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. Juni 2010 17:45
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: RE: st: AW: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
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> > If researchers publishing papers with data analysis were required to
> > indicate their package, that would help quite a bit. I searched Google
> > Scholar for Stata, SAS and SPSS, constraining the publication year to
> > 2009, and got 32900, 175000 and 44800.
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> I tried Google Scholar but had a tough time getting consistent results.
> While "R" is not at all helpful, people are supposed to cite it and I
> searched for that. But doing it various ways, people were very
> inconsistent. The more consistent methods drew my time away from that.
> However, it has been over a year since I tried that method so I should
> have another go at it.
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> > Each software is idiosyncratic:
> > should you give a link to www.sas.com or support.sas.com? should you
> > give a link to www.stata.com or to SSC?
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> I really like this idea. I tried to pick the most dominant link, so each
> would be shown in the best possible light. That usually turned out to be
> the main company link while there could be a more specific product link
> (e.g. SPSS.COM rather than the page for SPSS Statistics, which is one
> piece of many), but I did not think of looking at the support links.
> I'll do that&  see if it's higher.
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> > And since R does not have
> > support in the sense the commercial vendors do, [R-help] is the only
> > source of support, and the number of subscribers to [R-help] should be
> > compared to the sum of the number subscribers to Statalist and the
> > number of people who contacted Stata tech-support@.
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> Thanks for reminding me of this. I did start down this road months ago.
> Some listservs made total subscribers easy to find. Others didn't. Do
> you know where on Statalist it shows the number of subscribers?
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> I suspect I'll have a hard time getting the monthly phone call numbers
> from the vendors, but it can't hurt to ask. Statacorp folks are probably
> reading this. Any chance of that?
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> Thanks!
> Bob
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