I was wondering what the best programs to use for those social, behavioral, and heath researchers who have a weak math and computer science background.
I am a PhD student in audiology and am using OpenOffice as my word processor with Bibus as my referencer. This combo seems to be workin good so far.
For stats, I have installed OpenStat through Wine which seems like a great alternative to SPSS. PSPP has a nice interface but is far too limited. The R GUI, RKWard, looks nice but it just doesnt seem quite as intuitive for persons with an SPSS background.
For graphing, I have been using OpenOffice. I may try Gnumeric but I'm guessing its graphs will look about the same. I liked RLPlot but it is kinda buggy. I havent had time to fully explore Grace yet.
I realize that programs like R and GnuPlot are superior for those that are proficient with them but I am more interested in hearing about experiences with programs that have nice, intuitive GUIs.
Any thoughts or comments?
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