What are the advantages and disadvantages regarding data analysis, resolution of figures and graphs from STATA and SPSS.
Hello Amar,
In my experience, people often tend to advocate for whatever package they use most often (and not everyone has direct experience with a wide variety of statistical software).
Both packages have a number of virtues, as well as lack a number of features. The "best" package will vary depending on the type of analysis required.
However, I think you've omitted the most extensive and fastest-growing (in features and analytic methods) package in the world: R (https://www.r-project.org/).
Good luck with your survey.
Hello Amar,
In my experience, people often tend to advocate for whatever package they use most often (and not everyone has direct experience with a wide variety of statistical software).
Both packages have a number of virtues, as well as lack a number of features. The "best" package will vary depending on the type of analysis required.
However, I think you've omitted the most extensive and fastest-growing (in features and analytic methods) package in the world: R (https://www.r-project.org/).
Good luck with your survey.
Depend on your analysis criteria. well SPSS is one of the best. However, for qualitative you may use STATA.
Dear Dr. Ammar,
No simple answer for your question, as the colleagues said it depends on what tests and hypothesis you are going to test! Yet I preferer the most powerful and open sources with unlimited and frequently updated features "R".
I would suggest Stata. You can refer to my book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27422066-data-analysis-with-stata
In all honesty, I haven’t really given SATA a chance. I just don’t like the way the output looks. I pefer SPSS. I think it is more user friendly.
Nowadays, the actual options are Stata or R. I would not suggest any other...
Stata is superior to R in many ways.
It is flexible.
Many relevant research uses it and replication codes are available in Stata.
The community is really big and useful (Statalist).
Here is a useful page that briefly reviews the pros and cons of STATA (which I use most often), R (which I use, but less so), and SPSS (I do not use this at all, comparable to Excel in functionality): http://publish.illinois.edu/commonsknowledge/2019/12/05/stata-vs-r-vs-spss-for-data-analysis/
In my opinion, I think it’s just about the interest of the user. However, I am unsure about the strength of SPSS in certain tests. For example, I found Stata quite interesting for socioeconomic inequality analyses, multilevel analysis, survival analysis and so forth.
I will recommend STATA really.
In my opinion SPSS is too much user friendly so easier for not statistician researcher, but limitating for a statiscian. Personally I suggest to use R to researcher that realy know the statistics
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