>Ron,
>another statistical package I know (and used in the past) is SAS
>I have a friend who just graduated with a statistics degree and SPSS and SAS are indeed very widly spread
>
Ah, my original field too...
SAS is what we use here for highly statistical computing -- it's the top of the line, and it does a bang-up job on regression testing, graphing, etc. But it's not cheap, nor is it possible (AFAIK) to interact with vfp. I've only used SSPS a little, but I suspect it's the same...If you know someone at a university (many have one or both packages), perhaps they can get access to take a look at the products. Schools usually run SAS on mainframe, but it's out in a full Win 95 version now, too...