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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages.
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General information
Basic information about each product (developer, license, user interface etc.). Price note [1] indicates that the price was promotional (so higher prices may apply to current purchases), and note [2] indicates that lower/penetration pricing is offered to academic purchasers (e.g. give-away editions of some products are bundled with some student textbooks on statistics).
Product Example(s) Developer Latest version Cost (USD) Open source Software license Interface Written in Scripting languages ADaMSoft Marco Scarno January 24, 2008 Free Yes GNU GPL CLI/GUI Java Analyse-it Analyse-it $185–495 No Proprietary GUI ASReml VSN International October 2009 >$150 No Proprietary CLI BMDP Statistical Solutions $1095 No Proprietary Dataplot Alan Heckert March 2005 Free Yes Public domain CLI/GUI Epi Info 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention January 26, 2011 Free Yes Public domain CLI/GUI Visual Basic EViews IHS May 2011 student: $40 / acad: $425 / comm: $1075 No Proprietary CLI/GUI GAUSS Aptech systems May 2008 No Proprietary CLI/GUI GenStat VSN International July 2008 >$190 No Proprietary CLI/GUI GraphPad Prism GraphPad Software, Inc. Feb. 2009 $595 No Proprietary GUI gretl 
The gretl Team November 29, 2010 Free Yes GNU GPL CLI/GUI C JMP SAS Institute October, 2010 $1895 (commercial) $29.95/$49.95 (student) $495 for H.S. site licence No Proprietary GUI/CLI JSL (JMP Scripting Language) Maple 
Maplesoft April, 2009 $2275 (commercial), $99 (student) No Proprietary CLI/GUI Mathematica Wolfram Research 8.0.4, October 2011 $2,495 (Professional), $1095 (Education), $140 (Student), $69.95 (Student annual license) [3] $295 (Personal)[4] No Proprietary CLI/GUI MATLAB The MathWorks New releases twice per year Depends on many things. No Proprietary CLI/GUI MedCalc MedCalc Software bvba November 14, 2010 $395 No Proprietary GUI Minitab Minitab Inc. May 18, 2010 $895–$1395[2] perpetual, $542 or less concurrent annual, $29.99/$49.99/$99.99 academic No Proprietary CLI/GUI NMath Stats CenterSpace Software November 2009 ($1295)[2] No Proprietary CLI NumXL 
Spider Financial October 2009 Lite version (Free), Professional edition ($300) [2] No Proprietary GUI OpenEpi A. Dean, K. Sullivan, M. Soe June 23, 2011 Free Yes GNU GPL GUI JavaScript, HTML Origin OriginLab November,2011 student: $50 / acad: $550 / comm: $1095 No Proprietary GUI C++ Labtalk Ox programming language OxMetrics, J.A. Doornik August 2009 Free for Academic use No Proprietary CLI OxMetrics OxMetrics, J.A. Doornik August 2009 student or academic use: free commercial use: $1805 and over
No Proprietary CLI/GUI Primer Primer-E February 2007 $500–$1000 No Proprietary GUI PSPP pspp May 05, 2011 Free Yes GNU GPL CLI/GUI C Perl (by PSPP-Perl [5]) R R Foundation April 13, 2011 Free Yes GNU GPL CLI/GUI[6] C Python (by RPy), Perl (by Statistics::R module) R Commander[7] Lièvre Benjamin , John Fox August 4, 2011 Free Yes GNU GPL CLI/GUI RATS Estima October 1, 2007 $500 No Proprietary CLI/GUI RKWard[7] RKWard Community February 15, 2007 Free Yes GNU GPL GUI ROOT ROOT Analysis Framework June 30, 2010 Free Yes GNU GPL GUI C++ C++, Python SAGE >100 developers worldwide 4.5.2, August 2010 Free Yes GNU GPL CLI & GUI Python, Cython Python, SQL, Java, .NET, C++, FORTRAN SAS SAS Institute March 2008 ~$6000 per seat (PC version) / ~$28K per processor (Windows server) first-year fees for BASE, STAT, GRAPH, and ACCESS modules. Modules are licensed individually. Subsequent year fees are roughly half.[2] No Proprietary CLI/GUI SHAZAM Elastix Ltd July 2007 Pro $490 / Std. $390 / Site Lic: / Std. $1200 / Pro $1600 No Proprietary CLI/GUI SigmaXL SigmaXL Inc. January 18, 2011 $249 perpetual license No Proprietary GUI SOCR 
UCLA October 28, 2008 Free Yes LGPL GUI Java SOFA Statistics 
Grant Paton-Simpson April 2010 Free Yes AGPL GUI SPlus Insightful Inc. 2005 $2399/year No Proprietary CLI SPSS IBM 2011 $4975[2] No Proprietary CLI/GUI Java Python, SaxBasic Stata StataCorp July 2011 academic starting at $595[2] / industry starting at $1,195 No Proprietary CLI/GUI C ado, mata Statgraphics StatPoint October, 2009 $695 – $1495 No Proprietary GUI STATISTICA StatSoft November, 2010 >$695 No Proprietary GUI StatPlus AnalystSoft January 7, 2007 $150[1][2] No Proprietary GUI SYSTAT Systat Software Inc. February 21, 2007 $1299 No Proprietary CLI/GUI TSP TSP International September 2009 student: $120 / academic: $600 / commercial: $1200 No Proprietary CLI Fortran UNISTAT Unistat Ltd April 8, 2011 $895, $495, $300 No Proprietary GUI, Excel Winpepi J. H. Abramson June 2008 Free No Proprietary GUI WPS World Programming July 2011 $ No Proprietary GUI XLSTAT Addinsoft Inc. February 2009 $395[2] No Proprietary Excel XploRe MD*Tech 2006 No Proprietary GUI Product Example(s) Developer Latest version Cost (USD) Open source Software license Interface Operating system support
Product Windows Mac OS Linux BSD Unix ADaMSoft Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Analyse-it Yes No No No No BMDP Yes Dataplot Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Epi Info Yes No No No No EViews Yes Yes No No No GAUSS Yes Yes Yes No Yes GraphPad Prism Yes Yes No No No gretl Yes Yes Yes No No JMP Yes Yes Yes No No JHepWork Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Maple Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Matlab Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Mathematica Yes Yes Yes No Yes MedCalc Yes No No No No Minitab Yes Terminated No No No NMath Stats Yes No No No No NumXL Yes No No No No OpenEpi Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Origin Yes No No No No Primer Yes No No No No PSPP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes R Commander Yes[8] Yes[8] Yes[8] Yes[8] Yes R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes RATS Yes Yes Yes No Yes RKWard Yes No Yes No Yes ROOT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sage Yes Yes Yes No Yes SAS Yes Terminated Yes No Yes SHAZAM Yes No No No No SigmaXL Yes No No No No SOCR Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SOFA Statistics Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SPlus Yes No Yes No Yes SPSS Yes Yes Yes No No Stata Yes Yes Yes No Yes Statgraphics Yes No No No No STATISTICA Yes No No No No StatPlus Yes Yes No No No SYSTAT Yes No No No No TSP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes UNISTAT Yes No No No No The Unscrambler Yes No No No No Winpepi Yes No No No No XLSTAT Yes Yes No No No XploRe Yes No Yes No Yes Product Windows Mac OS Linux BSD Unix ANOVA
Support for various ANOVA methods
Product One-way Two-way MANOVA GLM Post-hoc tests Latin squares analysis ADaMSoft No No No No No No Analyse-it Yes Yes No No Yes No BMDP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Epi Info Yes Yes No No No No EViews Yes GAUSS No No No No No GenStat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes GraphPad Prism Yes Yes No No Yes No gretl JMP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Mathematica Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No MedCalc Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Minitab Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NMath Stats Yes Yes No No No No Origin Yes Yes No No Yes No PSPP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes R Commander Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SAS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SHAZAM Yes Yes No Yes Yes No SigmaXL Yes Yes No No No SOCR Yes Yes No No Yes Yes SOFA Statistics Yes No No No No No Stata Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Statgraphics Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes STATISTICA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes StatPlus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SPlus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SPSS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SYSTAT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes TSP No No No No No No UNISTAT Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes The Unscrambler Yes No No No No No Winpepi Yes Yes No No No No XLSTAT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Product One-way Two-way MANOVA GLM Post-hoc tests Latin squares analysis Regression
Support for various regression methods.
Product OLS WLS 2SLS NLLS Logistic GLM LAD Stepwise Quantile regression Probit Poisson MLR ADaMSoft Yes No No Yes Yes No No No Analyse-it Yes BMDP Yes Yes Yes Epi Info Yes No No No Yes No No No EViews Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes GAUSS No No GenStat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes GraphPad Prism Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No No No gretl Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes JMP Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Mathematica Yes Yes Yes Yes[9] Yes[10] Yes Yes[11] Yes MedCalc Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes Minitab Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes No NMath Stats Yes Yes Yes Yes Origin PSPP R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes R Commander[7] Yes Yes No RATS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SAS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SHAZAM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SigmaXL Yes Yes Yes SOCR Yes No No No Yes No No No SPlus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SPSS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Stata Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Statgraphics Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes STATISTICA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No StatPlus Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes SYSTAT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No TSP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes UNISTAT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes The Unscrambler Winpepi Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes XLSTAT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Product OLS WLS 2SLS NLLS Logistic GLM LAD Stepwise Quantile regression Probit Poisson MLR Time series analysis
Support for various time series analysis methods.
Product ARIMA GARCH Unit root test Cointegration test VAR Multivariate GARCH Analyse-it BMDP Yes EViews Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes GAUSS GraphPad Prism No No No No No gretl Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes JMP Yes Mathematica Yes Yes Yes MedCalc No No No No No Minitab Yes No No No No NumXL Yes Yes NMath Stats Origin PSPP R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes R Commander[7] RATS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SAS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SHAZAM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No SOCR No No No No No Stata Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Statgraphics Yes No No No No STATISTICA Yes No No No No StatPlus Yes No No No No SPlus Yes Yes SPSS Yes SYSTAT Yes TSP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No UNISTAT Yes No No No No Winpepi XLSTAT Product ARIMA GARCH Unit root test Cointegration test VAR Multivariate GARCH Charts and diagrams
Support for various statistical charts and diagrams.
Chart Bar chart Box plot Correlogram Histogram Line chart Scatterplot ADaMSoft Analyse-it BMDP Yes Yes Epi Info Yes No No Yes Yes Yes EViews Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes GAUSS GenStat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes GraphPad Prism Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes gretl Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes JMP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Mathematica Yes[12] Yes[13] Yes[14] Yes[15] Yes[16][17] MedCalc Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Minitab Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NMath Stats Origin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes PSPP R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes R Commander RATS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SAS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SHAZAM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SigmaXL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SOCR Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Stata Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Statgraphics STATISTICA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes StatPlus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SPlus SPSS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SYSTAT TSP No No Yes Yes Yes Yes UNISTAT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes The Unscrambler Yes Yes Yes Yes Winpepi Yes Yes XLSTAT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Chart Bar chart Box plot Correlogram Histogram Line chart Scatterplot Other abilities
Product s/w
type
[18]Descriptive statistics Nonparametric statistics Quality
controlSurvival
analysisData processing Base
stat.[19]Normality
tests[20]CTA[21] Nonparametric
comparison, ANOVACluster
analysisDiscriminant
analysisBDP[22] Ext.[23] Analyse-it X + + + + - - - - + + BMDP + + + + + + + Epi Info S + - + + - + - - + + Gauss St + + - - - - - - + + GenStat St + + + + + + + + + + GraphPad Prism S + + - + - + - - - - JMP S + + + + + + + + + + Mathematica S + + + + - - + - + + MedCalc S + + + + + + - - + + Minitab S + + + + + + + + + + NMath Stats S + + - - - - + - - - OpenEpi S + - + - - - - - - - Origin S + + - + + + + + + + PSPP S + + R St + + + + + + + + + + RATS S + + - - - - - - + + SAS S + + + + + + + + + + SHAZAM S + + - - - - - - + + SigmaXL X + + + + + + + + SOCR S + + + + - + + - + + SOFA Statistics S - + + - - - - - - Stata S + + + + + + + + + + Statgraphics S + + + + + + + + + + STATISTICA S + + + + + + + + + + StatPlus S + + + + + + - - + + SPlus St + + + + + + + + + + SPSS S + + + + + + + + + + SYSTAT S + + + + + + + + + + TSP S + + - - - - - - + + UNISTAT S + + + + + + + + + + The Unscrambler S + + Winpepi S + + + + - + + - - - XLSTAT X + + + + - + + + N/A + Product s/w
type
[18]Descriptive statistics Nonparametric statistics Quality
controlSurvival
analysisData processing Base
stat.[19]Normality
tests[20]CTA[21] Nonparametric
comparison, ANOVACluster
analysisDiscriminant
analysisBDP[22] Ext.[23] References
- ^ a b Promo price. Check for availability. Regular prices are higher by up to 50%.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Academic discounts/bundles available.
- ^ "Wolfram Worldwide Web Store". http://store.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
- ^ Mathematica Home Edition Released Macworld, Feb 2009
- ^ "Patrick Donelan / PSPP-Perl - search.cpan.org". http://search.cpan.org/~pdonelan/PSPP-Perl/. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
- ^ R is mainly a command line program but the Windows distribution comes with a GUI component called RGui. Archived 29 March 2006 at WebCite
- ^ a b c d GUI interface for the R programming language
- ^ a b c d Using R as platform Archived 7 May 2009 at WebCite
- ^ LogitModelFit Mathematica documentation
- ^ GeneralizedLinearModelFit Mathematica documentation
- ^ ProbitModelFit Mathematica documentation
- ^ BarChart Mathematica documentation
- ^ BoxWhiskerChart Mathematica documentation
- ^ Histogram Mathematica documentation
- ^ ListLinePlot Mathematica documentation
- ^ ListPlot Mathematica documentation
- ^ ListPointPlot3D Mathematica documentation
- ^ a b S = Standalone executive; St = Standalone executive, primitive textual (DOS or terminal) interface; A = Access Add-in; X = Excel Plug-In
- ^ a b Base Statistics (such as t-test, f-test, etc.)
- ^ a b Normality Tests, data exploring
- ^ a b Contingency Tables Analysis
- ^ a b Base Data Processing, f.ex. sorting
- ^ a b Extended (data sampling, transformation)
See also
- Comparison of numerical analysis software
- Comparison of computer algebra systems
- List of statistical packages
- List of scientific journals in statistics
Reviews of statistical packages
- "A Short Preview of Free Statistical Software Packages for Teaching Statistics to Industrial Technology Majors" Ms. Xiaoping Zhu and Dr. Ognjen Kuljaca. Journal of Industrial Technology, (Volume 21-2, April 2005).
- Reviews of free statistical packages
- McCullough, B.D. (1999). "Econometric software reliability: EViews, LIMDEP, SHAZAM and TSP". Journal of Applied Econometrics 14 (2): 191–202. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1255(199903/04)14:2<191::AID-JAE524>3.0.CO;2-K.
- McCullough, B. D. and H. D. Vinod. 1999. "The Numerical Reliability of Econometric Software". Journal of Economic Literature, June 1999, 37(2), page 633-665. JEL abstract, PDF link
- Renfro, Charles G. (2004). Computational econometrics: its impact on the development of quantitative economics. IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-58603-426-9.
- Summary of Survey Analysis Software by Alan Zaslavsky
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