[Blindmath] [Blind math] SAS, Plus and SPSS accessibility

[Zach]

I think you may find a lot of discussion addressing your question in the
archives of this mailing list. As a user of SAS and a neighbor of someone
who tried to use SPSS, SAS seems to be second only in accessibility to R.
SPSS has a lot of issues according to my friend and is not easy for sighted
folks to teach blind folk-for that matter so was SAS, but SAS was easy
enough to find resources on the web for. 

Others on this list more knowledgeable may disagree with me, and I beg your
pardon. I've heard too many horror stories about other software's to ever
consider anything other than SAS and R though.  I only use SAS and Excel
because it is what my advisor knows; but after this Masters I'm looking to
make the switch to R. 


Zachary Mason
M.S. Student
Animal and Dairy Sciences
Mississippi State University

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Subject: [Blindmath] SAS, Splus and SPSS accessibility

Hi,

How accessible are SAS, Splus and SPSS? I'm trying to decide if I should
take a module that uses all 3. Its description follows.

This module introduces students to the statistical computer packages, with
main focus on SAS, Splus and SPSS, that provide the computational tools for
performing statistical data analysis using the methodology covered in the
prerequisite modules. Topics include data access, transformations,
estimation, testing hypotheses, ANOVA, performing resampling methods and
simulations. It also equips students with basic computational techniques for
maximum likelihood estimation. 

-Vic


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