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GraphPad Software Inc. is a privately held California corporation. It was founded in 1989.[1] They publish GraphPad Prism, which combines 2D scientific graphing, biostatistics with explanations, and curve fitting via nonlinear regression (Windows and Mac). They also provide GraphPad QuickCalcs, a set of statistical calculators (Free, web-based).

GraphPad Prism

GraphPad Prism
Developer(s)GraphPad Software, Inc.
Stable release
9.0.0
Operating systemmacOS and Windows
TypeScientific graphing, statistics and nonlinear regression (curve fitting)
LicenseCommercial proprietary software
Websitewww.graphpad.com Edit this on Wikidata

GraphPad Prism is a commercial scientific 2D graphing and statistics software for Windows and Mac OS desktop computers.

Alternatives to GraphPad Prism are SciDAVis, SigmaPlot, Origin (data analysis software) and interfaces to R.[2]

Software features include nonlinear regression, with functionalities including the removal of outliers, comparisons of models, comparisons of curves, and interpolation of standard curves. The software allows the automatic updating of results and graphs, and has functionality for displaying error bars.

References

  1. ^ Truong K (13 August 2019). "GraphPad acquires University of Chicago spinout SnapGene". MedCity News. Breaking Media. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  2. ^ PubMed articles citing GraphPad Prism are 475 as of December 2017, while PubMed articles mentioning R are about 1320.