Update: Granted, that it's $549 with the complete documentation set (and, I must have the complete documentation set) does take a little of the wobble out of my knees.
Update, 1:30pm: I just got the following message from Stata. My good Stata citizenship is going to be rewarded. As Careyoke and Dorotha would say, Awesomely awesome!
-----Original Message-----
From: [address]@stata.com
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 12:48 PM
To: Jeremy Freese
Subject: Stata 9
Hello,
We will be sending you a complimentary copy of Stata 9.
I was going to have a sales person prepare a "ship form" (instructions to
shipping as to what and where to ship your package), but I wanted to
confirm the address with you first.
I am sooooooo jealous. The ed school here just put Stata 8 on the lab computers this quarter...they might be planning to skip Stata 9 entirely.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, how can you not be excited about Procrustean analysis and tetrachoric correlations!!!
ReplyDeleteOf course you could just use R for free.
ReplyDeleteI'm jealous, too. The commercial upgrade is nearly $1000 (as my workplace has an older Intercooled Stata release), and it seems that we're on track to spend at least that much in senior-level time just to decide whether to pull the trigger.
ReplyDeleteDammit, I just paid $130 for Intercooled Version 8.
ReplyDeleteI have R but when I have huge N's I have to use STATA and sometimes the standard errors are different. STATA if you are in practice allows you to do stuff really quickly.
Tom V.: If you bought Stata 8 in 2005, I think the upgrade is free.
ReplyDeleteTom B.: Once you make the leap up from Intercooled to SE, the upgrades aren't any more expensive in subsequent releases. Or at least that is their pricing policy to date.
I say unless they throw in a Release 9 t-shirt, you don't accept it. (http://www.stata.com/giftshop/)
ReplyDeleteNeal
I haven't bought one of their T-Shirts since Stata 6, so maybe I'm due for another.
ReplyDeletewhat is R (besides a letter and a statistic)?
ReplyDeleteR is to Stata as Firefox is to Internet Explorer.
ReplyDeleteActually, R is to S as Linux is to Unix is probably more accurate, but maybe less helpful.
It's an open source, incredibly powerful statistical language with a bit of a learning curve, but great flexibility and graphics. More info: www.r-project.org
Neal
Jeremy, you're right, Stata pricing (at least for commercial users) allows the Intercooled to SE upgrade to be unbundled from an 8 to 9 upgrade w/o penalty.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Brayden, Neal and Bill, for the pointers on R. It's been a while since I've done stupid Unix-like tricks with my PowerBook, and the price is right for home use.