Statistical Software Support and Information

The AssiStat
The AssiStat is a Windows-based software package that does automated calculation of 80 formulas useful in educational and psychological research, practice, and in measurement and statistics courses. It was designed to be used as a complement to typical statistical data analysis packages rather than as a primary data analysis tool.

Automatic Forecasting Systems
Homepage for AutoBox, an automatic forecasting package.

Betahat: Econometric software for the estimation and simulation of economic models
A menu-based package that provides the economic researcher with tools to perform all of the commonly used, and a number of rather esoteric, methods used in economic research

Business Forecast Systems
Homepage for Forecast Pro for Windows

DataDesk
Interactive data analysis and statistics package based on philosophy of EDA. Runs on the Macintosh. Now available under Windows

Derive
Derive is a symbolic math package.

EasyReg
Comprehensive (and free) econometric software package for Windows developed by Herman J. Bierens. Includes nonparametric regression, several unit root tests, and Johansen's and Bierens' cointegration tests.

Econometric Software
Sponsored by the Economics Department of SUNY-Oswego. Extensive list of links to econometric software vendors.

Econometric Software Homepages
Links to over 34 homepages of econometric software companies. Also includes links to 5 other such sites.

Estima
The developer of RATS (Regression and Time Series).

EViews
Homepage of Quantitative Micro Software (QMS), developer of EViews, an object oriented econometric package with a menu interface and extensive programming language.

GraphPad Software
Software for scientific graphics, curve fitting and statistics.

Idrisi GIS Software
Raster-based GIS software developed, distributed and supported by the IDRISI Project at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University.

Jandel Scientific Software
Graphing (SigmaPlot) and data analysis (SigmaStat) software for scientists and engineers.

JMP Software : Exploratory Data Analysis
Interactive software for statistical visualization and exploratory data analysis. Available for the Macintosh and Windows from SAS Institute.

Jurgen Doornik page for OX, GiveWin, PcGive and PcFiml

KWIKSTAT & WINKS Home Page
Statistical data analysis programs available under DOS (Kwikstat) and Windows (WINKS). Can download Evaluation/Shareware versions.

Labtech Data Acquisition and Control Software
Integrated real-time data acquistion, data display, control and data logging for DOS and Windows scientific and engineering applications.

Limdep Homepage
Online manual for Limdep 7.0, available by Chapters in ps, pdf or html formats

Lisp-Stat Info
Lisp-Stat is an extensible statistical computing environment for data analysis, statistical instruction and research, with an emphasis on dynamic graphics.

Mathematica
Mathematica, symbolic math and graphics package from Wolfram Research.

MALCOLM
MAximum Likelihood COintegration analysis of Linear Models. Menu driven RATS procedures.

Mathsoft Software
Mathsoft is the developer of Axum, Mathcad, Splus and StudyWorks

MedCalc
Designed specifically for medical statistics. Special features include Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves for test evaluation and Bland & Altman plot for method comparison.

NAG - Numerical Algorithms Group
Developer of numerical software libraries (Fortran, C), statistical systems (Genstat, GLIM, MLP), symbolic systems (AXIOM), graphics and visualization (IRIS Explorer) and tools and compilers.

NCSS for Windows
Comprehensive Windows stat packagewith downloadable demo. Also available is PASS for Power Analysis and Sample Size determination.

SAS Institute Inc.
Comprehensive statistics and data management software for many platforms.

SciTech Software for Science
Reseller of scientific, engineering and technical computing software.

SC Statistical Calculator Home Page
Information regarding the SC Statiscal Calculator, a program for PCs and Unix workstations that can perform a wide range of statistical tasks.

SHAZAM
The developer of SHAZAM Econometrics Package.

SIMSTAT for Windows
Inexpensive stat package from Provalis Research with DOS and Windows versions. Evaluation copy available for downloading.

SpaceStat - Software for Spatial Data Analysis
Spatial econometric software developed by Luc Anselin. Contains links to other GIS/Spatial statistics sites.

SPSS Inc.
Includes info on SPSS, SYSTAT,QI Analyst, Neural Connections and SPSS Diamond

SPSS and Statistics Discussion, Help, and Book Download
Links to other SPSS and statistics sites along with free Excel and Word books. Site maintained by Vijay Gupta.

Raynald's SPSS Tools, Code Archives, Tips, FAQ and Tutorials
Contains more than 350 free sample syntax, macros and scripts defined by purpose as well as Tips, FAQs, Tutorials, and a Newbie's Corner for SPSS software. Maintained by Raynald Levesque.

Stata
Statistical package for Windows and the Macintosh. Lots of online info on Stata together with The Stata Journal .

Statistica
Comprehensive system for statistics, graphics, data management and application development.

Statistical Calculator
SC runs under MS-DOS and Unix. In addition to acting as a statistical calculator, it is a structured programming language with over 400 internal routines (compiled C) and over 400 external routines (sc programs).

Statistical Solutions
Distributor for BMDP, nQueryAdvisor, EquivTest, SOLAS for Missing Data Analysis, NCSS and other statistical packages.

StatXact & LogXact
Home page of Cytel Corp, developers of two packages providing exact statistical inference.

SUDAAN - Software for Statistical Analysis of Correlated Data
Designed for anaysis of cluster-correlated data from a variety of sampling designs.

TPL Tables
Specialized package for professional cross tabulation tables.

TSP Home Page
Information on the time series econometric package.

Vitalnet
Homepage of Expert Health Data Programming, Inc. Provides analysis of health data sets.

WesVarPC
WesVarPC computes estimates and replicate variance estimates for complex design survey data. Free to download from Westat.

xlSTAT
Statistics and data analysis add-on for Microsoft Excel. Shareware and Pro versions available.

XploRe-An Interactive Statistical Computing Environment
Home page of the Institute for Statistics and Econometrics at the Department of Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin. Links to Computational Statistics (journal published by the institute), Statistical Links (journals, libraries, societies), Personal Pages (staff members) and an FTP server for discussion papers. Also information on the statistical computing packages XploRe 3.2 and 4.0.


Charlie Hallahan hallahan@ers.usda.gov or
Brian C. Monsell brian.c.monsell@census.gov