[homeles_ot-l] FYI - Free Statistical Software

[Tim D. Aubry]

FYI compliments of the Canadian Evaluation Society.  

Here's a short overview of various free statistical software packages.

*	R <http://www.r-project.org/>    is a complete statistical analysis package that is supported by all main computer platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux). It allows computing statistics as well as generating graphics using a large variety of techniques.
*	PSPP <http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/>  , not to be confused with the Public Service Pension Plan, is a free rewrite of the popular SPSS software. Using an interface that is similar to its bigger brother's, PSPP performs most of the statistical analysis that the free trial version of SPSS does, without the time limit.
*	Dataplot <http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/>   is a statistical analysis package developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology that works on many different platforms and that does non-linear modelling, statistical analysis and scientific visualization.
*	Statistics Open For All <http://www.sofastatistics.com/home.php>   (SOFA) is free user-friendly, learn-as-you-go, graphic interface software that is supported by all computer platforms. The visual quality of the outputs makes this software worth considering.

Other people have also come up with their own list of free statistical software. Here are a few:

*	Free Statistical Software <http://statpages.org/javasta2.html>  , by John C. Pezzullo
*	The Impoverished Social Scientist's Guide to Free Statistical Software and Resources <http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/socsci.shtml>  
*	Free Software <http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/soft.html>  
*	Free Statistical Software <http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Free_statistical_software>  , by Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

 

 

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