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Jon Sykes <js3150@cnsvax.albany.edu> wrote:


>Hello.

>I was wondering if anyone who reads this group could recommend or lead me 
>to a cheap, but efficient shareware statistics program.  I need it for my 
>geographical spatial analysis class and it should be able to calculate 
>z-scores, t-scores, p-values as well as the usual variance, skew, 
>deviance, etc.

>We use SPSS for windows at school, which is great, but its hard to get to 
>at times.   I can do quite a lot of stuff with Lotus 1-2-3, but obviously 
>not the probability or z-table stuff.

>Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
Go to http://www.shareware.com  .  From there you can interactively
search and download programs matching any criteria you want -- such as
"Statistics"  But since it is all free, din't hope for much.  Good
luck!

You should try the 'epistat' and 'epiinfo' stuff of the CDC.  They ahve a 
new version and although it is predominantly made for epidemiologist (in 
the field) it may help you a lot. Most basic analysis tools are available.
FTP at CDC.

Enjoy it.

In article <4a4rqm$l70@hecate.umd.edu>, Rod Martens <martens@eng.umd.edu> wrote:

> Greetings,
> Can anyone recommend relatively inexpensive statistical software packages for 
> windows?  (I'm on a student's budget.)
> Thanks for the help,
> Rod Martens.

Last week I posted a long note about stat s/w evaluation for NT - which I
am now completing.  There are many good packages, but I would strongly
recommend for someone on a shoe-string budget that if you already have
Excel, you supplement it with Ken Berk and Patrick Carey's book, "Data
Analysis with Microsoft Excel 5.0 for Windows," publ. by Course
Technology, Inc., ISBN 1-56527-525-X
AND buy their Excel Add-ins, which accompany the book on floppy.

Having made this recommendation, I must caution that there are many things
available in a real stat package that you will STILL not be able to do. 
Our list of such items ran like this (different people will have different
versions):

analysis of covariance
ARIMA (auto-regressive-integrated-moving average) model identification /
estimation
boxplots
canonical correlation
categorical data analysis (MLE for log-linear models, generalized logits)
cluster analysis - hierarchical, exclusive, fuzzy, etc.
contingency table analysis
contour plots
definition & testing of contrasts, estimable functions
design of experiments aide / catalog - 2-level, response surface, mixture,
D-optimal
discriminant analysis
error term identification or specification
filter development
fourier / spectral analysis
general linear modeling
leverage plots
logistic regression
multiple comparisons
neural net analysis (limited)
non-linear fitting
non-parametric analysis
principal components analysis, factor analysis
random effects models
response surface models
robust fits / statistics
screening models & analysis
statistical tolerance limits / intervals
stepwise regression
state space modeling
survival analysis
3D spinning plots
time series analysis (see ARIMA, fourier, transfer-function)
transfer-function modeling
variance components analysis - method of moments, (restricted) maximum
likelihood
wavelet analysis (limited)


Happy analysis!

P.S. We recommended JMP� and SAS�, but think that SPSS, S-plus (not yet on
NT), Statgraphics, Systat, and many other packages deserve serious
consideration.

-- 
The views expressed are not necessarily shared by Alcoa.

David Coleman
Sr. Technical Specialist - Statistics
Applied Mathematics and Computer Technology-ATC-D
Alcoa Technical Center
100 Technical Dr.
Alcoa Center, PA 15069

Jon Sykes <js3150@cnsvax.albany.edu> writes:

> 
> Hello.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone who reads this group could recommend or lead me 
> to a cheap, but efficient shareware statistics program.  I need it for my 
> geographical spatial analysis class and it should be able to calculate 
> z-scores, t-scores, p-values as well as the usual variance, skew, 
> deviance, etc.
> 
> We use SPSS for windows at school, which is great, but its hard to get to 
> at times.   I can do quite a lot of stuff with Lotus 1-2-3, but obviously 
> not the probability or z-table stuff.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> 

Take a look at my own stat program called SIMSTAT v3.5 on the 
oak.oakland.edu (file simst35e.zip in lib /simtel/msdos/statstics).
It provides a wide range of statistical analysis from simple procedures
such as frequency, crosstab, to more advanced methods such as GLM 
Anova/Ancova and hierarchical multiple regression.  The program also
offers some analysis rarely found in other commercial programs such
as inter-raters statistics, sensitivity analysis (ROC curves), 
single-case experimental design, bootstrap resampling analysis, etc.).


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	In article <4a4rqm$l70@hecate.umd.edu>,
			Rod Martens <martens@eng.umd.edu> wrote:

> Greetings,
> Can anyone recommend relatively inexpensive statistical software packages
> for windows?  (I'm on a student's budget.)
> Thanks for the help,
> Rod Martens.


	and Jon Sykes <js3150@cnsvax.albany.edu> wrote:


> I was wondering if anyone who reads this group could recommend or lead me 
> to a cheap, but efficient shareware statistics program.  I need it for my 
> geographical spatial analysis class and it should be able to calculate 
> z-scores, t-scores, p-values as well as the usual variance, skew, 
> deviance, etc.


	There's a package called MacAnova (which I mentioned in a post
yesterday) which is freeware and does this sort of thing, and was announced
on this newsgroup by its authors a little over a year ago.  You can get it
by anonymous ftp from umnstat.stat.umn.edu in the pub/macanova directory
(at least if what the announcement said is still accurate now).

	Gary Oehlert and Christopher Bingham, who created it, posted this:

> We like MacAnova because:
>   1)  It's free, we can give it to students to use at home or their labs
>       on Macintoshes or IBM compatibles.
>   2)  It's reasonably small yet still does what we need it to do for class.
>   3)  It's extensible via macros.
>   4)  It's reasonably fast.
>   5)  Students can get up and running for simple things with only a few
>       commands.
>   6)  It works well with libraries of named data sets and macros.
>   7)  It is flexible enough and powerful enough to use for research level
>        statistical computing
> 
> The most frequent complaints about MacAnova:
>   1)  It's not (choose one of SAS, SPSS, SYSTAT, MINITAB, DATADESK, JMP, ... )
>       or some other commercial program used in the real world.
>   2)  Even the Mac version is not really menu driven and thus, to steal a
>       phrase, MacAnova may be said to be user-polite, though perhaps not
>       user-friendly.


	and said a lot of other things about it . . . .



	Mike Hardy

Michael Hardy
School of Statistics
University of Minnesota
hardy@stat.umn.edu