[R] Use of R in clinical trials

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:12 PM, John Sorkin
<jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
> It is easy to devolve into visceral response mode, lose objectivity and slip into intolerance. R, S, S-Plus, SAS, PASW (nee SPSS), STATA, are all tools. Each has strengths and weaknesses. No one is inherently better, or worse than the other.

Sometimes it seems the name of the tool is more important. SPSS became
PASW for a brief inkling of time until someone at IBM perhaps
recognised the enormous value of just the name and then decided they
better stick with it, but decided to prefix everything with 'IBM'.
Corporate ego trip anyone?

http://spss.com/software/statistics/

Barry