[2018年最新整理]DifferencesBetweenStatisticalSoftware(SAS,SPSS,andMINITAB)doc.docVIP

Differences Between Statistical Software Packages ( SAS, SPSS, and MINITAB ) As Applied to Binary Response Variable Ibrahim Hassan Ibrahim Assoc. Prof. Of Statistics Dept., of Stat., Math. Faculty of Commerce, Tanta University “I think that, in general, software houses need to provide clearer, more detailed, and especially more specific descriptions of what their calculations are. It is true that software developers are entitled to feel that they should not have to write textbooks. But it is also true that computing usage is getting easier, cheaper, faster, and more widespread, with statistical novitiates making more and more use of complicated procedures. Anything we can all do to guard against ridiculous use of these procedures has got to be worthwhile.” (Searle, S. R., 1994) 1. INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF LITRATURES Several writers have recently reviewed statistical software for microcomputers and offered very useful comments to both users and vendors. Some of these reviews are comprehensive and general (Searle, S. R. (1989). Some others analyze specific program features and identify problem areas. For example, Gerard E. Dallal (1992) published a very concise paper through the American Statistician titled “The computer analysis of factorial experiments with nested factors”. Dallal used two different computing packages SAS, and SPSS to analyze unbalanced data from fixed models with nested factors. Dallal found differences between SAS and SPSS results beside some error of calculations of sums of squares in SPSS output. Followed by Dallal, several commentaries were sent to the editors of the American Statistician trying to explain the discrepancies between SAS and SPSS results. This controversy on Dallal’s paper was ended by Searle, S. R. (1994) who presented a theoretical clarification of what could be the basic cause of differences and error of results. Searle ended his paper not by a conclusion but by a prayer to all software houses asking them to provide more c