Comparison of statistical packages
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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AcaStat | Acastat | $29 | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||||
| 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 | |||
| Auguri | Advanced Analytics Group | June 30, 2008 | $54 – $799 | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
| Autobox | Autobox | March 31, 2010 - Version 6.0 | $800 – $34,000 | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
| BioStat | AnalystSoft | January 8, 2007 | $100[1][2] | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
| BMDP | Statistical Solutions | $1095 | No | Proprietary | |||||
| BrightStat | Daniel Stricker | February 22, 2008 | Free | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
| Dataplot | Alan Heckert | March 2005 | Free | Yes | Public domain | CLI/GUI | |||
| EasyReg | Herman J. Bierens | Free[3] / $300 |
No | Proprietary | GUI | ||||
| Epi Info | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | August 18, 2008 | Free | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
| EViews | EViews | Quantitative Micro Software | April 2010 | 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 | |||
| Golden Helix | Golden Helix | March 2008 | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | ||||
| GraphPad Prism | GraphPad Software, Inc. | Feb. 2009 | $595 | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
| gretl | 
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The gretl Team | November 29, 2010 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | CLI/GUI | C | |
| JMP | SAS Institute | November 1, 2008 | $1895 (commercial) $29.95/$49.95 (student) $495 for H.S. site licence | No | Proprietary | GUI/CLI | |||
| jHepWork | November 1, 2005 | - | No | GNU GPL | GUI/CLI | ||||
| MacAnova | Gary W. Oehlert and Christopher Bingham | August 29, 2005 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | GUI | |||
| Maple | Maple | Maplesoft | April, 2009 | $1895 (commercial), $99 (student) | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | ||
| Mathematica | Wolfram Research | 8.0.0, November 2010 | $2,495 (Professional), $1095 (Education), $140 (Student), $69.95 (Student annual license) [4] $295 (Personal)[5] | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
| MATLAB | File:MATLAB-R2008a-for-Linux.png | 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 | |||
| modelQED | marketingqed | June 15, 2007 | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||||
| Minitab | 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 | ||
| MRDCL | MRDC | January 4, 2008 | $4000[2] | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
| NCSS | NCSS Statistical Software | >$399 | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||||
| NMath Stats | NMath Stats | CenterSpace Software | November 2009 | ($1295)[2] | No | Proprietary | CLI | ||
| NumXL | 
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Spider Financial | October 2009 | Lite version (Free), Professional edition ($300) [2] | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||
| OpenEpi | A. Dean, K. Sullivan, M. Soe | May 20, 2009 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | GUI | JavaScript, HTML | ||
| Origin | OriginLab | $699 | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||||
| Ox programming language | OxMetrics, J.A. Doornik | August 2009 | Free for Academic use | No | Proprietary | CLI | |||
| OxMetrics | OxMetrics, J.A. Doornik | August 2009 | $1805-... | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
| Partek | Partek | June 2007 | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||||
| Primer | Primer-E | February 2007 | $500–$1000 | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
| ProFicient | InfinityQS International | March 2010 | $1495 | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
| PSPP | pspp | October 11, 2009 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | CLI/GUI | C | ||
| R | R Foundation | April, 2010 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | CLI/GUI[6] | C | Python (by RPy), Perl (by Statistics::R module) | |
| R Commander[7] | John Fox | August 1, 2006 | 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 | |
| SalStat | Alan James Salmoni | February 2007 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | GUI | |||
| 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 | SAS Institute | March 2008 | Academics and colleges students: free Commercial: ~$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 | File:Hist process cap.jpg | SigmaXL Inc. | January 18, 2011 | $249 perpetual license | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||
| SOCR | 
|
UCLA | October 28, 2008 | Free | Yes | LGPL | GUI | Java | |
| SOFA Statistics | SOFA Statistics | Grant Paton-Simpson | April 2010 | Free | Yes | AGPL | GUI | ||
| SPlus | Insightful Inc. | 2005 | $2399/year | No | Proprietary | CLI | |||
| SPSS | IBM | 2007 | $1599[2] | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
| Stata | Stata | StataCorp | July 2009 | academic starting at $595[2] / industry starting at $1,245 | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | C] | ado, mata |
| Statgraphics | StatPoint | October, 2009 | $695 – $1495 | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
| STATISTICA | StatSoft | November, 2010 | >$695 | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
| Statistix | Statistix | $695 | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||||
| StatIt | StatIt | >$395 | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||||
| STATPerl | STATPerl | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | GUI | ||||
| StatPlus | AnalystSoft | January 7, 2007 | $150[1][2] | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
| StatsDirect | StatsDirect | $179 | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||||
| SYSTAT | Systat Software Inc. | February 21, 2007 | $1299 | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
| Total Access Statistics | FMS Inc. | May 2008 | $599 | No | Proprietary | GUI, Access | |||
| UNISTAT | Unistat Ltd | March 15, 2005 | $895, $495, $300 | No | Proprietary | GUI, Excel | |||
| The Unscrambler | CAMO Software | September 2008 | not free | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
| VisualStat | VisualStat Computing | $195 | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||||
| Winpepi | J. H. Abramson | June 2008 | Free | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
| WinSPC | DataNet Quality Systems | February 2008 | $1600 | No | Proprietary | CLI/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AcaStat | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| ADaMSoft | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Analyse-it | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Auguri | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Autobox | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| BioStat | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| BMDP | Yes | ||||
| BrightStat | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Dataplot | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EasyReg | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Epi Info | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| EViews | Yes | Terminated (1.1) | No | No | No |
| GAUSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Golden Helix | 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 |
| MacAnova | 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 |
| modelQED | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| NCSS | Yes | No | 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 |
| Partek | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| Primer | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| ProFicient | 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 | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Sage | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| SalStat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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 |
| Statistix | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| StatIt | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| STATPerl | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| StatPlus | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| StatsDirect | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| SYSTAT | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Total Access Statistics | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| UNISTAT | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| The Unscrambler | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| VisualStat | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Winpepi | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| WinSPC | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AcaStat | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| ADaMSoft | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Analyse-it | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Auguri | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Autobox | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| BioStat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| BMDP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| BrightStat | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| EasyReg | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Epi Info | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| EViews | Yes | |||||
| GAUSS | No | No | No | No | No | |
| GenStat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Golden Helix | 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 |
| NCSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| NMath Stats | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| OpenEpi | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Origin | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Partek | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PSPP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| R | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| R Commander | 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 | 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 |
| StatIt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| StatPlus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SPlus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SPSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| StatsDirect | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Statistix | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SYSTAT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Total Access Statistics | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| UNISTAT | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Unscrambler | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| VisualStat | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Winpepi | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| WinSPC | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AcaStat | ||||||||||||
| ADaMSoft | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||||
| Analyse-it | Yes | |||||||||||
| Auguri | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||||||||
| Autobox | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| BioStat | ||||||||||||
| BMDP | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| BrightStat | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| EasyReg | 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 |
| Golden Helix | 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 | |||
| NCSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| NMath Stats | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Origin | ||||||||||||
| Partek | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ||||
| 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 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Sagata | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | 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 | ||||||||||
| 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 | |||
| StatIt | ||||||||||||
| StatPlus | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||||
| StatsDirect | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Statistix | ||||||||||||
| SYSTAT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||
| Total Access Statistics | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| UNISTAT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| The Unscrambler | ||||||||||||
| VisualStat | ||||||||||||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AcaStat | ||||||
| Analyse-it | ||||||
| Auguri | Yes | |||||
| Autobox | Yes | |||||
| BioStat | ||||||
| BMDP | Yes | |||||
| EasyReg | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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 | |
| NCSS | Yes | |||||
| 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 | |
| StatIt | ||||||
| StatPlus | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| SPlus | Yes | Yes | ||||
| SPSS | Yes | |||||
| StatsDirect | ||||||
| Statistix | ||||||
| SYSTAT | Yes | |||||
| Total Access Statistics | ||||||
| UNISTAT | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| VisualStat | ||||||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AcaStat | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ADaMSoft | ||||||
| Analyse-it | ||||||
| Auguri | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Autobox | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| BioStat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BMDP | Yes | Yes | ||||
| BrightStat | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EasyReg | ||||||
| Epi Info | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EViews | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GAUSS | ||||||
| GenStat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Golden Helix | ||||||
| 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 |
| NCSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| NMath Stats | ||||||
| Origin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Partek | ||||||
| PSPP | ||||||
| R | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| R Commander | ||||||
| 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 |
| StatIt | ||||||
| StatPlus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SPlus | ||||||
| SPSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| StatsDirect | ||||||
| Statistix | ||||||
| SYSTAT | ||||||
| Total Access Statistics | ||||||
| UNISTAT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Unscrambler | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| VisualStat | ||||||
| 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 control |
Survival analysis |
Data processing | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base stat.[19] |
Normality tests[20] |
CTA[21] | Nonparametric comparison, ANOVA |
Cluster analysis |
Discriminant analysis |
BDP[22] | Ext.[23] | ||||
| AcaStat | S | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Analyse-it | X | + | + | + | + | - | - | - | - | + | + |
| Auguri | S | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | + | + |
| BioStat | S | + | + | + | + | - | + | - | - | + | + |
| BMDP | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | ||||
| BrightStat | + | + | + | + | - | + | - | - | + | + | |
| EasyReg | S | + | - | - | - | - | +? | - | - | + | + |
| Epi Info | S | + | - | + | + | - | + | - | - | + | + |
| Gauss | St | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | + | + |
| GenStat | St | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Golden Helix | S | + | + | - | + | + | - | + | - | - | - |
| GraphPad Prism | S | + | + | - | + | - | + | - | - | - | - |
| JMP | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Mathematica | S | + | + | + | + | - | - | + | - | + | + |
| MedCalc | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | - | + | + |
| Minitab | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| NCSS | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| NMath Stats | S | + | + | - | - | - | - | + | - | - | - |
| OpenEpi | S | + | - | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Origin | S | + | + | - | - | + | +- | - | - | + | + |
| Partek | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| PSPP | S | + | + | ||||||||
| R | St | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| RATS | S | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | + | + |
| SAS | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| SHAZAM | S | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | + | + |
| SigmaXL | X | + | + | + | |||||||
| SOCR | S | + | + | + | + | - | + | + | - | + | + |
| SOFA Statistics | S | - | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Stata | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Statgraphics | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| STATISTICA | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| StatIt | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | N/A | N/A |
| StatPlus | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | - | + | + |
| SPlus | St | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| SPSS | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| StatsDirect | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | - | N/A | N/A |
| Statistix | 2008 | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | - | + | + |
| SYSTAT | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Total Access Statistics | A | + | + | + | + | - | - | - | - | + | + |
| UNISTAT | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| The Unscrambler | S | + | + | ||||||||
| VisualStat | S | + | + | - | + | - | - | - | - | + | - |
| Winpepi | S | + | + | + | + | - | + | + | - | - | - |
| XLSTAT | X | + | + | + | + | - | + | + | + | N/A | + |
| Product | s/w type [18] |
Descriptive statistics | Nonparametric statistics | Quality control |
Survival analysis |
Data processing | |||||
| Base stat.[19] |
Normality tests[20] |
CTA[21] | Nonparametric comparison, ANOVA |
Cluster analysis |
Discriminant analysis |
BDP[22] | Ext.[23] | ||||
Notes
- ^ a b c Promo price. Check for availability. Regular prices are higher by up to 50%.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Academic discounts/bundles available.
- ^ For noncommercial use
- ^ "Wolfram Worldwide Web Store". Retrieved 2008-11-20.
- ^ Mathematica Home Edition Released Macworld, Feb 2009
- ^ R is mainly a command line program but the Windows distribution comes with a GUI component called RGui.
- ^ a b c d GUI interface for the R programming language
- ^ a b c d Using R as platform
- ^ 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 9781586034269.
- Summary of Survey Analysis Software by Alan Zaslavsky