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RE: st: AW: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
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"Seed, Paul" <[email protected]>
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Ronan Conroy <[email protected]>
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RE: st: AW: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
Date
Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:18:14 +0100
Date
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:05:24 +0100
>On 24 Meith 2010, at 18:37, Nick Winter wrote:
>> At the risk of provoking flames - can someone articulate the reason
>> *for* citing the statistical software used in a book or article,
>> especially in the case where only very standard statistical tools are
>> used? We don't, for example, generally cite the word processor,
>> citation management software, and other computer tools used in the
>> course of our research....
>No potential for flames as far as I can see.
>As a reviewer I encourage the practice so that people know the
>capabilities of software, and if they are undertaking a similar study,
>they may be guided in their choice of software for analysis.
As a reviewer I once noticed that a particular article could
be improved using a novel method made available through an article
in SJ. As the authors had declared that they had used Stata,
I could recommend its use with fair confidence that I was not asking
the impossible.
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