Quite correct and the solution is also simple.

First HIRE a statistician to do your statistical analysis and let him/her provide the appropriate result with the toolkit of thier choice.

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Modern marketing types keep repeating over and over, people usually don't really want to buy a piece of hardware or software per se, they want to buy a solution to some problem they are having. If the problem is they have an experienced statistician around who is looking for a toolkit, that's fine; but more often, I think the problem is they need some statistical analysis, and just handing them a confusing bag of tools isn't going to solve that problem for them. > >---------------------- Information from the mail header >----------------------- >Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> >Poster: Jack Hamilton <Jack_Hamilton@HCCOMPARE.COM> >Organization: HealthCare COMPARE Corporation >Subject: Re: Statistics instruction via books? (was: Why SAS) >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >------- > >Anthony Ayiomamitis <ayiomamitis@IBM.NET> wrote: > >> I am quite of the opposite opinion. When you go and buy a manual for >>Microsoft Windows 95, do you expect Bill Gates to explain the >>fundamentals behind GUI design, structured programming techniques, >>object oriented programming methodology and design, principles of >>documentation etc that went behind the development of Windows 95? > >If you buy Microsoft Visual Basic, which is a better analogy than >buying Windows 95, you *do* get manuals (or online help) explaining >GUI design and object-oriented programming. > >-- >Jack_Hamilton@HCCompare.com >HealthCare COMPARE Corp. >West Sacramento, CA >