Is introductory SPSS, Stat, SAS, and R helpful to getting jobs

[seji]

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I'm interested in taking this intro class about statistics programming. It includes SPSS, Stats, SAS, and R. Is this useful if I just take this intro class towards getting jobs? Can I or Should I list this on my resume?

I'm deciding between this class and Intro Financial Accounting. Which one do you think will be more beneficial in the long run for jobs, skills, and usefulness?

 

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I'm interested in taking this intro class about statistics programming. It includes SPSS, Stats, SAS, and R. Is this useful if I just take this intro class towards getting jobs? Can I or Should I list this on my resume?

I'm deciding between this class and Intro Financial Accounting. Which one do you think will be more beneficial in the long run for jobs, skills, and usefulness?

The skills are the key thing. If you learn them in that class, great. And, yes, statistical programming skills are useful for employment.

I have no idea how that compares to accounting.

 

[Stories]

Does this class have all of those programs in one class? If so, I can't imagine you'd get anything useful out of it... you'd be really spreading yourself thin with four different programs in one semester.

Heck, I've been working with SAS for years and I still don't fully have the hang of it.

 

[seji]

Its an introductory course, so I don't think its going to be in that depth. What I'm asking is should I take this class for the benefit of putting it on my resume as basic knowledge of having these programs?

 

[seji]

in addition to helping out with a resume for potential jobs, will this improve my chances of getting into grad school to get a mph?

 

[web2linc]

I'm quite experienced in SPSS, but I don't believe you can learn enough to be an expert all in one class. You might have to take two or three to lay the foundation, then a few more for advanced statistical analyses (Repeated-Measures ANOVAs, ANCOVAs, Binary Logistical regression, hierarchal models etc.)