I was talking the other day with someone who runs a market research
firm that does much primary data collection over the telephone. He told
me about the software he uses and how much he pays. I asked if he knew
of any open-source solutions and he said he wasn't aware if there were
any sufficiently specialized. Are there any stats packages that are
geared toward the number crunching market researchers do? This man uses
SPSS but other examples are SAS, StatPro, MiniTab and so on.
Yet more specialized is the software used to generate phone numbers for
random phone samples (no, this has nothing to do with telemarketing),
something called CATI, standing for Computer Assisted Telephone Interview.
Any suggestions as to where there might be open-source solutions for
these would be welcome. Feel free to contact me on-list or off.
-- Paul Swider Cell 727.776.9979 eFax 208.248.1869 http://www.swider.net/Paul-Swider-resume.html http://www.greenstar.org/pswider.htm
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