Good firm – The Stata Weblog

Dembe, Partridge, and Geist (2011, pdf), in a paper not too long ago revealed in BMC Well being Providers Analysis, report that Stata and SAS have been “overwhelmingly essentially the most generally used software program functions employed (in 46% and 42.6% of articles respectively)”. The articles referred to have been these in well being providers analysis research revealed within the U.S.

Good firm. Each are, in our humble opinion, glorious packages, though we admit to have a choice for one among them.

We must always point out that the authors report that SAS utilization grew significantly in the course of the research interval, and that Stata utilization held roughly fixed, a conclusion that matches the ends in their Desk 1, an extract of which is

The authors speculated that the expansion of SAS “could have been stimulated by enhancements […] that gave customers the power to make use of balanced repeated replication (BRR) and jackknife strategies for variance estimation with advanced survey information […]”. Since these options have been already in Stata, that sounds cheap to us.

Allow us to simply say, good firm. Good corporations.