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General Purpose

Data Desk

Data Desk is a user friendly statistical package with special facilities for exploration and visualization. It is used in statistics.com "Introduction to Statistics" courses. Student copies may come bundled with courses texts. Check the Data Desk web site - www.datadesk.com - for trial copies and more information about Data Desk. This software is supported by our teaching assistants and is illustrated in the introductory Statistics sequence. When using Data Desk in more advanced courses, check the Data Desk web site to be sure it offers the capabilities needed.

Excel

Many people use the functionality provided in Excel's Analysis Toolpak for basic statistical analysis. If you are going to continue with more advanced statistics, you will need to purchase a statistical add-in for Excel, suited to your needs. Several statistics.com courses in resampling and data mining use Excel add-ins.

IBM SPSS Statistics

IBM SPSS Statistics Student Software Available Online through several web sites. Please click here for options. A free IBM SPSS Statistics trial version (lasts for about 21 days) is available from SPSS, but will not last the duration of any statistics.com course. If you are a student enrolled in a university, you may obtain a student version of IBM SPSS Statistics from SPSS. Statistics.com teaching assistants have access to IBM SPSS Statistics, and may offer assistance in selected courses.

JMP

JMP is an easy-to-use data analysis and graphics tool from SAS. JMP provides a broad collection of statistics and graphics tools, from basic statistics to DOE to Data Mining and is available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems. JMP also integrates with SAS providing an intuitive interface to SAS' extensive library and enterprise data. You can download a 30-day evaluation copy of JMP here. This software will be supported by our teaching assistants beginning in the second quarter of 2007.

MINITAB

A free 30 day trial version of this software (version 15) is available to students enrolled in certain courses at statistics.com. MINITAB is a general statistical and graphical analysis package. It can do various general analyses including time series. To download the 30 day trial version of Minitab 15, click here and carefully follow the on screen instructions. For more information about MINITAB, visit the MINITAB website:
www.minitab.com . This software is supported by our teaching assistants.

R

This software is free and can be obtained from the R Project website. It does basic statistics, resampling, regression, logistic regression, GLM and GEE (this list includes available user-written routines). To obtain a free copy or to receive more information about R visit the R Project website:
www.r-project.org

SAS

The SAS Learning Edition is an inexpensive version of SAS with an impressive array of features from SAS Base, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/QC, SAS/ETS and SAS Enterprise Guide. Some of the included PROCS are MIXED, GENMOD, ARIMA, GLM, REG, LOGISTIC, and PHREG. See the SAS website for more information. SAS/LE will read datasets of any size, but will only process the first 1,500 observations. There is no limitation on the number of variables. The SAS learning edition is supported by SAS only for Windows XP, but can be run under Vista and Windows 7 - see this non-SAS forum link for more information.

S-PLUS

Insightful does not have any special provision for statistics.com students, but may provide a free student edition version of this software if you are enrolled in a university. For the free student version, click here, or for academic pricing for others click here.

A free version (student edition) of this software is available for students enrolled in a statistics.com course that requires its use. S-PLUS is capable of doing regression, resampling, logistic regression, GLM and GEE (this listincludes available user-written routines).To receive a free copy you must first register with the S-PLUS e-Academy by emailing support@e-academy.com and explaining that you are enrolled at statistics.com under a special agreement with Judy McOstrich. Please also include your full name and mailing address. You will then recieve a user name and password that will allow you to login to the S-PLUS e-Academy where you can download the student edition of S-PLUS. For more information about S-PLUS visit the S-PLUS website:
www.insightful.com

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Stata

A trial copy of Stata is available for use in some courses. It does standard statistics, resampling, time series, regression, logistic regression, GLM and GEE. To request the trial copy, email service@stata.com and inform them that you are taking a course with statistics.com and tell them which of our courses you are taking. Please also provide your name, mailing address, and platform requested (Windows, Mac, Linux). Installation CDs are $20.00 plus shipping. For more information about Stata, visit the Stata Corp website:
www.stata.com

StatCrunch

StatCrunch is an online statistical software that allows users to perform complex analyses, share data sets, and generate compelling reports of their data. Interactive graphics help users understand statistical concepts and are available for export to enrich reports with visual representations of data.

There is a nominal fee for students: $12.00 for 6 months or $22.50 for 12 months. Because it is web-based, the software can be accessed anywhere.

For more information, visit the website at www.statcrunch.com.

STATGRAPHICS

STATGRAPHICS is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use personal computer software package designed for experts and non-experts alike. It combines a broad range of statistical procedures with interactive graphics. A 30-day trial copy of STATGRAPHICS Centurion for Windows is available at statgraphics.co. A free copy of STATGRAPHICS Online can be accessed by Windows, Mac or Linux users at www.statgraphicsonline.com using any web browser.

Special Purpose

AMOS

Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) software version 5 is available in a demo version at http://assess.com/xcart/product.php?productid=215&download=1&url=AmosDemo.exe. In addition to SEM, this program can also be used to interpolate missing data values.

Comprehensive Meta-Analysis

Comprehensive Meta-Analysis is a software package that helps you summarize and reach conclusions from multiple studies on the same subject. Registered participants in our course "Meta Analysis" will be given access to a copy of Comprehensive Meta Analysis software in the first lesson. For more information about Comprehensive Meta-Analysis, visit: www.metaanalysis.com

Design-Expert

Design-Expert(R) software from Stat-Ease, Inc. is a statistical package for Design of Experiments (DOE). With it you can not only screen for vital factors, but also locate ideal process settings for top performance and discover optimal product formulations. To download the free 45-day trial, you may click here. Students of statistics.com qualify for a discounted rate using this form. For more information on Design-Expert, please visit: www.statease.com/dx71descr.html

Geostatistics Packages

The following packages all perform specific functions in geostatistics, and are freeware. Crimestat was created for the analysis of crime location data. GeoDa is aimed at exploratory analysis of spatial data in general (if you are in a high-security network environment and encounter problems downloading GeoDa, try this alternative link: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/koschins/shared/). LandSerf is for the visualization and analysis of surfaces. All three are referenced in the online course Spatial Statistical Analysis in Geographic Information Systems.

LEM

LEM freeware is for latent class, log multiplicative and event history models (it is also used in interpolating missing data values). It is available here.

LISREL

LISREL software is used for structural equation modeling. It is available here.

MINISTEP

MINISTEP is a free version of WINSTEPS. It is used for Rasch Measurement and is free without a time restriction. To download MINISTEP, please click here. For more information about MINISTEP, visit the MINISTEP website:
http://www.winsteps.com/ministep.htm

Mplus

Mplus is statistical modeling software, with special capabilities for the inclusion of continuous and categorical latent variables. A free demo is available here. For more information, visit the Mplus website:
http://www.statmodel.com

NQuery Advisor

A free version of this software is available to students enrolled in certain statistics.com courses. NQuery Advisor can do power and sample size analysis. To download NQuery Advisor, click here. After downloading and installing the software you will need a license code which will be provided at the begining of your course, by your instructor, at your request. For more information about NQuery Advisor, visit the NQuery Advisor website:
www.statsolusa.com

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OpenEpi

OpenEpi is free software for doing analysis of epidemiological data. It is available at www.openepi.com

Power and Precision

A free 30 day (or 30 trial) version of this software is available to students enrolled in certain statistics.com courses. It has the ability to do power and sample size analysis. Registered participants in statistics.com's "Sample Size and Power" course will receive information at the beginning of the course on how to obtain a licensed copy for the duration of the course. For more information about Power and Precision visit the Power and Precision website:
www.power-analysis.com

Resampling Stats

A free 60 day trial version of Resampling Stats is available for use in statistics.com courses; first download the trial software from the site noted below, then request a 60-day license at the beginning of the course. Resampling Stats does resampling (bootstrapping, permutation tests). For more information about Resampling Stats visit the Resampling Stats website:
www.resample.com

Rule Discovery System

With Compumine Rule Discovery System it is easy to create decision trees, rule sets, and robust ensemble models that help you to discover important segments and valuable relationships in your data, and to make reliable predictions. An evaluation version of Rule Discovery System can be freely downloaded from Compumine's web page.

Spotfire

The Spotfire Enterprise Analytic platform equips every employee to quickly discover new insights in the information they work with every day. Spotfire's interactive, visual capabilities for data analysis empower individuals to easily see trends, patterns outliers and unanticipated relationships in data with unprecedented speed and adaptability. To download a 30-Day TIBCO Spotfire Professional, Metrics and Network Analytics Trial click here.

StatXact

A 30 day trial license of StatXact is available from Cytel. StatXact performs exact nonparametric analysis, exact analysis for categorical data, and exact sample size and power. To download your trial copy, click here and follow the instructions provided by Cytel. For more information on StatXact, visit the StatXact website:
www.cytel.com

ToxTools

ToxTools, with specialized dose-response modeling capabilities for toxicological analysis, is available in a time-limited version from Cytel Software Corp (www.cytel.com). If you are using this software in conjunction with statistics.com's Toxicological Risk Assessment course, do not download the software without first checking with our office -- we don't want the software to expire on you in the middle of the course.

WEKA

Weka is an open source software program containing tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. You can run it on a Windows PC. It requires Java 1.4 or later. WEKA is a freeware program, and is available here.

WINBUGS

WINBUGS is free software for Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). It is available here.

WINSTEPS

WINSTEPS is software that does Rasch analysis. Purchase it here - http://www.winsteps.com/winsteps.htm . See "MINISTEP" (above) for limited evaluation version of WINSTEPS. For more information on WINSTEPS or MINISTEP please visit the WINSTEPS homepage.

XLMiner

This Excel add-in does multiple linear regression and logistic regression (both with variable subset selection), neural nets, CART, k-nearest neighbor, discriminant analysis, Bayesian classifier, principal components analysis, hierarchical and k-means clustering, association rules, time series, partitioning, and sampling. To obtain a 60 day trial for use with any statistics.com course, visit the XLMiner website:
www.xlminer.com, download the trial version, and request a key from stats@resample.com to unlock it for 60 days (be sure to specify which statistics.com course you are taking).

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