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SAS vs S-Plus |
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If you |
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08/25/2002 |
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You're right, much of the info here is bogus, but you haven't seen the worst of it until you read the I-Banking board.
Having accumulated +10 yrs Matlab experience, I've become so enamored with it, it'll be hard to use anything else.
While on the subject (and considering that few people who know anything ever visit these boards), I'd like to ask for some career advise. I have an MS in engineering from a top 5 school, and an MBA in finance from a so-so school (hey, it was free). What I really want is to break into risk management, even if it's just as a programmer. If I could only do one thing right now, which would be more value added for my career, get a risk management certification from PRMIA, or learn SAS?
Thanks in advance. If you don't want to post your answer here write me at servoengineer@yahoo.com.
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If you are an engineer and have done programming in any language, you can learn SAS in about a week. The question is if your econometric training is solid enough to withstand SAS's "user-friendly" approach to swallowing newbies.
I too favor Matlab. SAS is pretty powerful, but can be a bit unwieldly. For everyday crapola SPSS is not too bad.
Cheers,
Yabai
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