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The Epidemiology Department bought into Stata's Grad Plan licensing, which allows any department at MSU to purchase individual copies (perpetual license for that version) of Stata for department-owned machines for about $160 (manuals cost extra). Linda Walters is the contact person. To make the purchase with a credit card, you call Stata, tell them it's a purchase under MSU's Grad Plan, and the materials are shipped within a few days to the Epidemiology office, where you pick them up. Stata is probably the most used statistics program in my department, ahead of SPSS, but I don't know enough about them to compare them for you. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Resotko [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 4:54 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MSUNAG] Statistics software site license > > Hello all, > > I know the computer store offers both SAS and SPSS > statistical software packages. Has anyone worked with Stata > ( http://www.stata.com/ ) and does anyone have a site license > for their department or college for this software? I'm > interested to hear your experiences with the software, and > how it stacks up against SPSS and SAS, both in terms of > features/performance and pricing. Any information you can > provide would be greatly appreciated. > > John A. Resotko > Head of Systems Administration > Michigan State University College of Law > email: [log in to unmask] > Phone: 517-432-6836 > Fax: 517-432-6861 > > Current Chairperson of the > MSU Network Communications Committee > >