Dear Sir/Madam


Hi. I am a general paediatrician, and I have read *some* chapters of the
following books(1-3). I think SPSS lacks some features that may be important
in data analysis (for example: interval of correlation coefficient in
bivariate normal distribution, PRESS, and MSPR in cross-validation). I am
thinking about changing SPSS to R:


   1.    SPSS is very expensive for me to update.
   2.  My colleagues use SPSS, but I think data can be exchanged between
   SPSS, and R, is this true?
   3.  I have not worked with R so much yet.



Would you mind do me a favour about this issue, please?


Kind regards


Mehrshad


1.         Norusis MJ. SPSS 16.0 guide to data analysis. Upper Saddle River:
Prentice Hall Inc.; 2008.

2.         Norusis MJ. SPSS 16.0 statistical procedures companion. Upper
Saddle River: Prentice Hall Inc.; 2008.

3.         Kutner M, Nachtsheim C, Neter J, Li W. Applied linear statistical
models. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2005.

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