[R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...

[Joris Meys]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Patrick Burns
<pburns at pburns.seanet.com> wrote:
>
> (Statistics is what stuffy professors
> do, I just look at my data and try to
> figure out what it means.)

Often those stuffy professors have a reason to do so. When they want
an objective view on the data for example, or an objective measure of
the significance of a hypothesis. But you're right, who cares about
objectiveness these days? It doesn't sell you a paper, does it?

Cheers
Joris


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