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Volume 21 - Winter 1988

Contents

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Research Article

  • Top of the Line: SPSS, SAS, and SYSTAT

  • Anne Permaloff, Carl Grafton
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 September 2013, pp. 657-666

  • In our last PS article we discussed the vicissitudes of statistics package purchasing. Our focus was on low and mid priced products. We found a much wider variation in performance and quality than is seen in more popular programs sold to the business market for word processing, data base management, or spreadsheet work. This variation and the associated possibility of buying a package that does not meet one's needs makes statistical software selection especially difficult. Statistics packages are not commonly found in retail outlets so that in-store trials cannot be made. Reviews and articles can narrow the field, but the user is still obliged to carefully study manufacturers' specifications and to discuss particular needs with company technicians by telephone.

    We determined that for a large majority of users the moderately priced SYSTAT was the best choice unless menus or high quality presentation graphics were required. A new graphics module corrects the latter problem. If one's data base is within 64 K, STATGRAPHICS with its wealth of statistical techniques, menu driven ease of use, and its superb graphics was also recommended as was the inexpensive NCSS.

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  • Activities and Appointments

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    02 September 2013, pp. 299-303
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  • The Long Voyage Home—Begun1.

  • Donald Chisholm
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    02 September 2013, pp. 901-907
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  • Tenure and Faculty Quality in Post-Growth Academe

  • Stephen P. Dresch
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    02 September 2013, pp. 68-71
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  • Microcomputer Statistical Packages

  • Carl Grafton, Anne Permaloff
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    02 September 2013, pp. 71-82
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  • Award Recipients

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    02 September 2013, pp. 303-305
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  • Found Women: Pioneers in Southern Political Science. Hallie Farmer

  • Dorothy McBride Stetson
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    02 September 2013, pp. 667-669
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In Memoriam

  • Michael P. Gehlen

  • Robert J. Sickels
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    02 September 2013, p. 305
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  • Finding Jobs: Placement of Political Scientists in 1985–86

  • J. Brinton Rowdybush
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    02 September 2013, pp. 82-86
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  • Inauguration of Cornell Professorship Honors First Italian President, Luigi Einaudi

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    02 September 2013, pp. 925-926
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  • Status Report on the Freedom of Information Act

  • Page Putnam Miller
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    02 September 2013, pp. 87-90
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