[macintologist]

As you might know, running SPSS 13 wasn't possible on an intel mac because supposedly Rosetta caused problems with calculations

"SPSS may generate incorrect results on Intel-based Macs"

Well now Apple has issued a certain fix in 10.4.8 titled: "Improves the accuracy of Rosetta numerics and addresses Altivec translation issues on Intel-based Macs."

Does this mean that SPSS 13 would work properly on an intel mac now?

[milhouse]

I have read that SPSS 15 will be officially supported on Intel machines (due in Q2 '07).

I don't know how the OS update impacts SPSS 13, sorry.

Have you looked at Stata? (Stata statistical software for professionals)

[milhouse]

FYI I received this from SPSS today:

- We currently do not support any version of SPSS for Mac on any of the Intel-based machines. We anticipate SPSS 15 for Mac which will be compatible on these machines being released sometime second quarter of next year.

Thank you.

Melissa - Technical Support
SPSS Inc.

[Jonesy]

Originally Posted by milhouse

FYI I received this from SPSS today:

- We currently do not support any version of SPSS for Mac on any of the Intel-based machines. We anticipate SPSS 15 for Mac which will be compatible on these machines being released sometime second quarter of next year.

Thank you.

Melissa - Technical Support
SPSS Inc.

Typical of SPSS Mac support. Makes me consider whether another stats package might be better.

[jmgriff]

I dropped SPSS a few years ago, mostly because of their poor mac support, and started usingR, which is an open-source s+. Now I much prefer it, and R is already Intel-ready.

[milhouse]

Yep, SPSS's history on the Mac has been spotty. I am making the move to JMP (5.1) for now as I would like a nice GUI. I also have R but haven't explored it much.

Mathematica can also do stats and runs well on the Mac though it is overkill for that purpose alone.
Stata looks decent as well.

Generally, I would rather wrangle up the $$ for a nice GUI than mess with command line or a programming language.

[jmgriff]

Originally Posted by milhouse

Generally, I would rather wrangle up the $$ for a nice GUI than mess with command line or a programming language.

It was the fact that R behaves like a programming language that really sold me on it. There are a few different approaches to an R GUI more similar to, say, SPSS (e.g. R-Commander). I haven't really investigated them however.