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Comprehensive Guide to Statistical Software

The document is a table comparing the statistical procedures and capabilities of various statistical software packages. It lists statistical procedures along the left and software packages along the top. Cells contain dots to indicate if a statistical package supports a given procedure. Procedures include descriptive statistics, hypothesis tests, regression, nonparametric tests, multivariate analyses and more. Software ranges from basic packages like SigmaStat to more advanced packages like SAS and STATISTICA.

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Comprehensive Guide to Statistical Software

The document is a table comparing the statistical procedures and capabilities of various statistical software packages. It lists statistical procedures along the left and software packages along the top. Cells contain dots to indicate if a statistical package supports a given procedure. Procedures include descriptive statistics, hypothesis tests, regression, nonparametric tests, multivariate analyses and more. Software ranges from basic packages like SigmaStat to more advanced packages like SAS and STATISTICA.

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REVI EW - STATISTICAL SOFTWARE


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Statistical Procedures InSTAT Data Importation
from EXCEL from other Statistical Programs

SCI ENTI FI C CO M PUTI N G

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SCI [Link] M

SCI [Link] M

February 2006

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Beginning SigmaStat

Prism

Genstat

JMP

Intermediate MINITAB SPSS

SYSTAT

S-PLUS

Advanced SAS* STATISTICA

nQuery Advisor

StatMate

Specialized Resampling Solas Stats

StatXact

Unscrambler

Data Manipulation
concatenate filter join sort split stack subset transpose transformations randomize

Descriptive Statistics
at least 5 of usual (N, mean, median, SD, SEM, CV, Skewness, Curtosis, etc.)

Distributional Fitting
automatic test for normality curve fitting

Parametric Hypothesis Tests


1 and 2 sample t-tests paired t-test 1-way ANOVA 2-Way ANOVA Repeated Measures ANOVA

Non-Parametric Hypothesis Tests


Mann-Whitney Rank Sum Wilcoxon Signed Rank Kruskal-Wallis Friedman Welch's corrected t

Regression/Correlation
Simple Linear Regression Multiple Linear Regression Logistic Stepwise Best Subsets Deming Regression Non-Linear regression Pearson Correlation Spearman Correlation

Contingency Tables
Fishers Exact Test Chi-Square test McNemar's test Kendall's tau Mantel-Haenszel test Cochran test

Multivariate Tests
MANOVA Partial Least Squares Clustering Discriminant Analysis Principal Components Analysis *-not menu driven


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Statistical Procedures InSTAT Linear Models
(any of the common linear or generalized linear models)

SCI ENTI FI C CO M PUTI N G

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SCI [Link] M

SCI [Link] M

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Beginning SigmaStat Prism Genstat JMP

Intermediate MINITAB SPSS SYSTAT S-PLUS

Advanced SAS* STATISTICA nQuery Advisor StatMate

Specialized Resampling Stats Solas StatXact Unscrambler

Mixed Models
(with at least parameter estimates, variance components, MLE, REML)

Non-Linear Models
Regression Maximal Likelihood Estimation (MLE)

DOE (Experimental Design)


Box-Hunter Central Composite Factorial Mixture Optimal Plackett-Burman

Time Series
ARIMA Autocorrelation LOWESS smoothing Moving Average smoothing Seasonal Adjustement

QA
Box and Whisker Plots Control Charts Gauge R&R Pareto Chart Process Capability Analysis Sigma Measurements

Classification and Regression Trees


(some form of partitioning)

Survival/Reliability/Clinical
Relative Risk Odd's Ratio Sensitivity/Specificity ROC Curves Kaplan-Meier Gehan-Breslow

Power/Sample Size
(for at least 5 standard hypothesis tests)

Missing Value Analysis


Any of the common techniques

Neural Networks
(any of the common input/output perceptrons)

MonteCarlo Simulations
Random Sampling Markov Chain MC

Resampling
(any of the common methods, e.g. Bootstrap and Jackknife)

Programming Language
(specialized code peculiar to this package to enhance functioning) *-not menu driven

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