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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages.

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[edit] 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
AcaStat Acastat $29 No Proprietary GUI
ADaMSoft Marco Scarno Jan 24, 2008 Free Yes GNU GPL CLI/GUI
Analyse-it Analyse-it $185-495 No Proprietary GUI
ASReml VSN International February 2007 >$150 No Proprietary CLI/GUI
Auguri Advanced Analytics Group June 30, 2008 $54 - $799 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 March 2007 acad: $420 / comm: $975 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 gretl The gretl Team January 23, 2009 Free Yes GNU GPL CLI/GUI
JMP SAS Institute November 1, 2005 $1190 No Proprietary 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 7.0.1, March 2009 $2,495 (Professional), $1095 (Education), $140 (Student), $69.95 (Student annual license) [4] $295 (Personal)[5] No Proprietary CLI/GUI
MedCalc Frank Schoonjans April 22, 2008 $395 No Proprietary GUI
modelQED [marketingqed] June 15, 2007 No Proprietary GUI
Minitab Minitab Minitab Inc. January 10, 2007 $1195[2] No Proprietary CLI/GUI
MRDCL MRDC January 04, 2008 $4000[2] No Proprietary CLI/GUI
NCSS NCSS Statistical Software >$399 No Proprietary GUI
OpenEpi A. Dean, K. Sullivan, M. Soe October 26 2008 Free Yes GNU GPL GUI
Origin OriginLab $699 No Proprietary GUI
Ox programming language OxMetrics, J.A. Doornik October 2007 Free for Academic use No Proprietary CLI
OxMetrics OxMetrics, J.A. Doornik October 2007 $500-1200 No Proprietary CLI/GUI
Partek Partek June 2007 No Proprietary GUI
Primer Primer-E February 2007 $500-$1000 No Proprietary GUI
PSPP pspp June 11, 2008 Free Yes GNU GPL CLI/GUI
R R Foundation February 8, 2008 Free Yes GNU GPL CLI/GUI[6]
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
SalStat Alan James Salmoni February 2007 Free Yes GNU GPL GUI
SAS SAS SAS Institute March 2008 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
SOCR SOCR UCLA October 28, 2008 Free Yes GNU GPL GUI
SPlus Insightful Inc. 2005 No Proprietary CLI
SPSS SPSS Inc. 2007 $1599[2] No Proprietary CLI/GUI
Stata Stata Statacorp June, 2007 $129 No Proprietary CLI/GUI
Statgraphics StatPoint June, 2005 $695 - $1295 No Proprietary GUI
STATISTICA StatSoft >$695 No Proprietary GUI
Statistix Statistix $695 No Proprietary GUI
StatIt StatIt >$395 No Proprietary 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 FREE-to-TRY No Proprietary GUI
VisualStat VisualStat Computing $195 No Proprietary GUI
Winpepi J. H. Abramson June 2008 Free No Proprietary GUI
WinSPC DataNet Quality Systems Feb 2008 Template:$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

[edit] 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
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 Yes
MacAnova Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Maple 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
OpenEpi Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Origin Yes No No No No
Partek Yes No Yes No No
Primer 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
SalStat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SAS Yes Terminated Yes No Yes
SOCR 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
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

[edit] 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
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
Golden Helix Yes Yes
GraphPad Prism Yes Yes No No Yes No
gretl
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
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
SAS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SOCR Yes Yes No No Yes Yes
Stata 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
VisualStat Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
Winpepi No No 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

[edit] Regression

Support for various regression methods.

Product OLS WLS 2SLS NLLS Logistic GLM LAD Stepwise Quantile regression Probit Poisson
AcaStat
ADaMSoft Yes No No Yes Yes No No No
Analyse-it Yes
Auguri Yes Yes No 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
GAUSS No No
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
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 No Yes No No Yes No
NCSS 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
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
SAS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SOCR Yes No No No Yes No No No
Stata 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
SPlus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SPSS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
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
VisualStat
Winpepi Yes Yes
XLStat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Product OLS WLS 2SLS NLLS Logistic GLM LAD Stepwise Quantile regression Probit Poisson

[edit] 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
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
Mathematica Yes Yes
MedCalc No No No No No
Minitab Yes No No No No
NCSS Yes
Origin
PSPP
R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
R Commander[7]
RATS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SAS
SOCR No No No No No
Stata 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

[edit] 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
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
Golden Helix
GraphPad Prism Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
gretl 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
Origin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Partek
PSPP
R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
R Commander
SAS Yes 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
VisualStat
Winpepi
XLStat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Chart Bar chart Box plot Correlogram Histogram Line chart Scatterplot

[edit] Comparison of statistical packages

Note that prices below are for commercial licenses. Many of these packages are available at substantial discounts to academic users, depending on their institution.[1][2][3]

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Product Publisher Web-site Price s/w
type
[18]		 Descriptive Statistics ANOVA Regression Nonparametric Statistics Qua-
lity Con-
trol		 Time Series Analysis Surv-
ival Anal-
ysis		     Data Processing Char-
ting [19]
base
stat. [20]		 norm-
ality
tests [21]		 1way 2way MANOVA GLM post-hoc
tests		 latin sqrs anal-
ysis		 linear regres. [22] polyn. regres. other [23] CTA [24] nonpara-
metric comp., ANOVA		 base series proc. [25] analysis [26] cluster anal-
ysis		 discri-
minant anal-
ysis		 BDP [27] Ext. [28]
AcaStat AcaStat www.acastat.com $29 S + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Analyse-it Analyse-it www.analyse-it.com $185-$495[2] X + + + + - - + - + + - + + - - - - - - + + -
Auguri Advanced Analytics Group www.aag-auguri.com $54 - $799 S + + + + - - - - + + + - - - + + - - - + + +
BioStat AnalystSoft www.analystsoft.com $100[1][2] S + + + + + + + - ++ + + + + - + + + - - + + +
BMDP Statistical Solutions www.statsol.ie $1095 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
BrightStat Daniel Stricker www.brightstat.com Free + + + + - + + - + - + + + - - - + - - + + +
EasyReg Herman J. Bie econ.la.psu.edu/ ~hbierens/ EASYREG.HTM $300 S + - - - - - - - ++ + + - - - - - +? - - + + -
Epi Info Centers for Disease Control and Prevention www.cdc.gov/epiinfo free S + - + + - - - - + + - + + - - - + - - + + +
Gauss Aptech System www.aptech.com Unknown St + +  ? - - - - - + - - - - - + + - - - + + +
Golden Helix Golden Helix, Inc. www.goldenhelix.com S + + + + - - - - + - + - + + + + - + - - - -
GraphPad Prism GraphPad Software, Inc. www.graphpad.com $595 S + + + + - - + - + + - - + - - - + - - - - +
Mathematica Wolfram Research www.wolfram.com $1880[2] S + + + + + + + - + + - + + - + + - + - + + +
MedCalc Frank Schoonjans www.medcalc.be $395 S + + + + - + + - + + + + + + - - + - - + + +
Minitab Minitab Inc. www.minitab.com $1195[2] S + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + + + + + +
NCSS NCSS Statistical
Software		 www.ncss.com >$399 S + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + + + + + +
OpenEpi A. Dean, K. Sullivan, M. M. Soe www.OpenEpi.com free S + - + - - - - - + - - + - - - - - - - - - -
Origin OriginLab www.originlab.com $699 S + + + + - - - - - - - - - + + + +- - - + + +
Partek Partek Incorporated www.partek.com S + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - - + + + + + +
PSPP PSPP projectteam www.gnu.org/software/pspp free S + +
RATS Estima www.estima.com $500 S + + - - - - - - + + + - - - + + - - - + + +
SAS SAS Institute www.sas.com S + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
SOCR Statistics Online Computational Resource www.StatisticsResource.org free S + + + + - - - - + + - + + - - - + + - + + +
Statgraphics StatPoint www.statgraphics.com $695 - $1195 S + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + + + + + +
STATISTICA StatSoft www.statsoft.com >$695 S + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + + + + + +
StatIt StatIt www.statit.com >$295 S + + + + + + + - ++ + + + + + + + + + + N/A N/A N/A
StatPlus AnalystSoft www.analystsoft.com $150[1][2] S + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + - - + + +
SPlus Insightful Inc. www.splus.com Unknown (on request, > $1000?) St + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - + + + + +
SPSS SPSS Inc. www.spss.com $1599[2] S + + + + + + + + ++ + ++ + + + + + + + + + + +
StatsDirect StatsDirect www.statsdirect.com $179 S + + + + - - + - ++ + + + + + + - + - - N/A N/A N/A
Statistix Statistix www.statistix.com $695 S + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - - + + +
SYSTAT Systat Softwar www.systat.com $1299 S + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Total Access Statistics FMS www.fmsinc.com $599 A + + + + - - - - + + - + + - - - - - - + + -
UNISTAT UNISTAT Ltd www.unistat.com $895 S + + + + - + + + ++ + ++ + + + + + + + + + + +
VisualStat VisualStat Computing www.visualstat.com $195 S + + + + + - + - ++ + - - + - - - - - - + - +
Winpepi J. H. Abramson www.brixtonhealth.com Free S + + + - - - - - + - + + + - - + + + - - - +
XLStat Addinsoft Inc. www.xlstat.com $395[2] X + + + + + + + - ++ + + + + - + + + + + N/A + +

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Promo price. Check for availability. Regular prices are higher by up to 50%.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Academic discounts/bundles available.
  3. ^ For noncommercial use
  4. ^ "Wolfram Worldwide Web Store". http://store.wolfram.com. Retrieved on 2008-11-20. 
  5. ^ Mathematica Home Edition Released Macworld, Feb 2009
  6. ^ R is mainly a command line program but the Windows distribution comes with a GUI component called RGui.
  7. ^ a b c d GUI interface for the R programming language
  8. ^ a b c d Using R as platform
  9. ^ LogitModelFit Mathematica documentation
  10. ^ GeneralizedLinearModelFit Mathematica documentation
  11. ^ ProbitModelFit Mathematica documentation
  12. ^ BarChart Mathematica documentation
  13. ^ BoxWhiskerPlot Mathematica documentation
  14. ^ Histogram Mathematica documentation
  15. ^ ListLinePlot Mathematica documentation
  16. ^ ListPlot Mathematica documentation
  17. ^ ListPointPlot3D Mathematica documentation
  18. ^ S = Standalone executive; St = Standalone executive, primitive textual (DOS or terminal) interface; A = Access Add-in; X = Excel Plug-In
  19. ^ Char-
    ting: for standalone packages
  20. ^ Base Statistics (such as t-test, f-test, etc.)
  21. ^ Normality Tests, data exploring
  22. ^ Includes multivariate linear regression
  23. ^ (stepwise or GRM)
  24. ^ Contingency Tables Analysis
  25. ^ Base Series Processing, f.ex. differing and smoothing
  26. ^ Analysis, f.ex. moving average etc.
  27. ^ Base Data Processing, f.ex. sorting
  28. ^ Extended (data sampling, transformation)

[edit] See also

[edit] Reviews of statistical packages

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