I have collected the data for risk factors of breast cancer patients along with healthy volunteer including the personal history, age at time of disease, menarche, and number of other attributes. Total samples size is 500. Suggest me the best one so I can analyze the data (Graph pad or R).
I will be thankful if you guide me or help me in this regard.
Thanks
I think there is no "best" software, since it depends on...
accessibility (R is easy because it's open source, however, if your company has a licence for commercial statistical packages, accessing those is no problem either)
personal preferences (do you like graphical interfaces, or prefer coding?)
previous knowledge about the software package. R requires some period of orientation to become familiar with it, while SPSS for example is easier to start with.
If you decide using R, RStudio is the IDE of your choice (also available at no charge). To use GraphPad, by contrasts, you need to purchase a licence.
Daniel is correct - there is no "best" software. However, the main software packages used by epidemiologists are Stata, SAS, and to an increasing extent, R.
I agree there is no 'best' program. I have worked with Matlab, SPSS, and R.
I like R (with RStudio) because published recent methods often have an associated R package. The code is transparent and finally, it's free. If you want to use a method that is very recent, this is probably your best option.
SPSS is very easy to use and very appropriate for maybe more 'standard' analyses.
I like Matlab, because it is like R very transparent in the code and functions are easy to write. This is also the program I have the most experience with, so I have some subjective preference for it.
The best software depends on the type of analysis that you are doing. In many cases, multiple software will have the capability for an analysis project. For most of my projects, I use SAS because it provides state-of-art statistical methods, is user-friendly, and has excellent technical support.
The best software is JMP, it is easy to use. If you want present data in Graphs then I recommend you Graph pad, which is easier than any statistic software
What type of analysis do you want to do? What do you want to do with your model? I think that is a more important question that what is the best software.
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