Comparison of statistical packages

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

1 General information
2 Operating system support
3 ANOVA
4 Regression
5 Time series analysis
6 Comparison of statistical packages
7 Notes
8 See also

[edit] General information

Basic general information about the browsers: creator/company, license/price etc.

Product	Developer	Latest version date	Cost (USD)	Open source	Software license	Interface
ASReml	VSN International	Feb 2007	>$150	No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
AcaStat	Acastat		$29	No	Proprietary	GUI
Analyse-it	Analyse-it		$149	No	Proprietary	GUI
BioStat	AnalystSoft	January 8, 2007	$100,*	No	Proprietary	GUI
EasyReg	Herman J. Bierens		Free^[1] / $300	No	Proprietary	GUI
EViews	Quantitative Micro Software	March 2007		No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
GAUSS	Aptech system	2006		No	Proprietary	CLI
GenStat	VSN International	July 2006	>$190	No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
gretl	The gretl Team	March 24, 2006	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	GUI
JMP	SAS Institute	November 1, 2005	$1190	No	Proprietary	GUI
Mathematica	Wolfram Research	June 20, 2005	$1880	No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
MedCalc	Frank Schoonjans	March 7, 2007	$299	No	Proprietary	GUI
Minitab	Minitab Inc.	January 10, 2007	$1195,**	No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
NCSS	NCSS Statistical Software		>$399	No	Proprietary	GUI
Origin	OriginLab		$699	No	Proprietary	GUI
PSPP	Pspp	August 3, 2005	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	CLI
R	R Foundation	October 3, 2006	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	CLI
R Commander^[2]	John Fox	August 1, 2006	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	CLI/GUI
RATS	Estima	December 1, 2006	$500	No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
RKWard^[2]	RKWard Community	February 15, 2007	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	GUI
SAS	SAS Institute	April, 2006		No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
SOCR	UCLA	November 30, 2006	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	GUI
Stata	Statacorp	July 13, 2006		No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
STATISTICA	StatSoft		>$695	No	Proprietary	GUI
StatIt	StatIt		>$395	No	Proprietary	GUI
StatPlus	AnalystSoft	January 7, 2007	$150,*	No	Proprietary	GUI
SPlus	Insightful Inc.	2005		No	Proprietary	CLI
SPSS	SPSS Inc.	2005	$1599**	No	Proprietary	GUI
StatsDirect	StatsDirect		$179	No	Proprietary	GUI
Statistix	Statistix		$695	No	Proprietary	GUI
SYSTAT	Systat Software Inc.	May 24, 2004		No	Proprietary
UNISTAT	Unistat Ltd	March 15, 2005	$895, $495, $300	No	Proprietary	GUI, Excel
VisualStat	VisualStat Computing		$195	No	Proprietary	GUI
XLStat	Kovach Computing		$395**	No	Proprietary	Excel
XploRe	MD*Tech	2006		No	Proprietary	GUI

[edit] Operating system support

Product	Windows	Mac OS	Linux	BSD	Unix
AcaStat	Yes	No	No	No	No
Analyse-it	Yes	No	No	No	No
BioStat	Yes	No	No	No	No
EasyReg	Yes	No	No	No	No
EViews	Yes	Terminated (1.1)	No	No	No
GAUSS	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
gretl	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
JMP	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes
Mathematica	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
MedCalc	Yes	No	No	No	No
Minitab	Yes	Terminated	No	No	No
NCSS	Yes	No	No	No	No
Origin	Yes	No	No	No	No
PSPP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R Commander	Yes^[3]	Yes^[3]	Yes^[3]	Yes^[3]	Yes
RATS	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
RKWard	No	No	Yes	?	Yes
SAS	Yes	Terminated	Yes	No	Yes
AcaStat	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SOCR	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stata	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
STATISTICA	Yes	No	No	No	No
StatIt	Yes	No	No	No	No
StatPlus	Yes	No	No	No	No
SPlus	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
SPSS	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
StatsDirect	Yes	No	No	No	No
Statistix	Yes	No	No	No	No
SYSTAT	Yes	No	No	No	No
UNISTAT	Yes	No	No	No	No
VisualStat	Yes	No	No	No	No
XLStat
XploRe	Yes	?	Yes	?	Yes

[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
Analyse-it	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
BioStat	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
EasyReg	No	No	No	No	No	No
EViews	Yes
GAUSS		No	No	No	No	No
gretl
Mathematica	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
MedCalc	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Minitab	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
NCSS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Origin	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
R	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R Commander	Yes	Yes		Yes
SAS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SOCR	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Stata	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	No
Statistix	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SYSTAT
UNISTAT	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
VisualStat	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
XLStat	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No

[edit] Regression

Support for various regression methods.

Product	OLS	WLS	2SLS	NLLS	Logistic	GLM	LAD	Stepwise
AcaStat
Analyse-it	Yes
BioStat
EasyReg	Yes		Yes
EViews	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
GAUSS
gretl	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Mathematica	Yes	Yes
MedCalc	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Minitab	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
NCSS	Yes				Yes			Yes
Origin
R	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R Commander^[2]	Yes					Yes
RATS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Sagata	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
SAS
SOCR	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Stata	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
STATISTICA	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
StatIt
StatPlus	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
SPlus	Yes			Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes
SPSS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
StatsDirect	Yes				Yes
Statistix
SYSTAT
UNISTAT	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
VisualStat
XLStat

[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
BioStat
EasyReg	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
EViews	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
GAUSS
gretl	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mathematica	Yes	Yes
MedCalc	No	No	No	No	No
Minitab	Yes	No	No	No	No
NCSS	Yes
Origin
R	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R Commander^[2]
RATS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SAS
SOCR	No	No	No	No	No
Stata	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes
STATISTICA	Yes	No	No	No	No
StatIt
StatPlus	Yes	No	No	No	No
SPlus		Yes			Yes
SPSS	Yes
StatsDirect
Statistix
SYSTAT
UNITAT	Yes	No	No	No	No
VisualStat
XLStat

[edit] Comparison of statistical packages

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Product	Publisher	Web-site	Price	Package type^[4]	Descriptive Statistics		ANOVA						Regression			Nonparametric Statistics		Quality Control	Time Series Analysis		Survival Analysis			Data Processing		Charting (for standalone packages)
Product	Publisher	Web-site	Price	Package type^[4]	Base Statistics (such as t-test, f-test, etc.)	Normality Tests, data exploring	One-Way	Two-Way	MANOVA	GLM	Post-hoc Tests	Latin Squares Analysis	Linear Regression^[5]	Polynomial Regression	Other types (stepwise or GRM )	Contingency Tables Analysis	Nonparametric Comparisons, ANOVA	Quality Control	Base Series Processing (differing, smoothing)	Analysis (moving average etc.)	Survival Analysis	Cluster Analysis	Discriminant Analysis	Base Data Processing (sorting etc.)	Extended (data sampling, transformation)	Charting (for standalone packages)
AcaStat	AcaStat	www.acastat.com	$29	S	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Analyse-it	Analyse-it	www.analyse-it.com	$149 ^[6]	X	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-
BioStat	AnalystSoft	www.analystsoft.com	$100^[7]^[6]	S	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	++	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	+
EasyReg	Herman J. Bie	econ.la.psu.edu/~hbierens/EASYREG.HTM	$300	S	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	++	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	+?	-	-	+	+	-
Gauss	Aptech System	www.aptech.com	Unknown	SC^[8]	+	+	?	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	+
Mathematica	Wolfram Research	www.wolfram.com	$1880^[6]	S	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	+
MedCalc	Frank Schoonjans	www.medcalc.be	$299	S	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	+
Minitab	Minitab Inc.	www.minitab.com	$1195^[6]	S	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	++	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
NCSS	NCSS Statistical Software	www.ncss.com	>$399	S	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	++	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Origin	OriginLan	www.originlab.com	$699	S	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+-	-	-	+	+	+
RATS	Estima	www.estima.com	$500	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^[7]^[6]	S	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	++	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	+
SPlus	Insightful Inc.	www.splus.com	Unknown (on request, > $1000?)	SC^[8]	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	+
SPSS	SPSS Inc.	www.spss.com	$1599^[6]	S	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	++	+	++	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
StatsDirect	StatsDirect	www.statsdirect.com	$179	S	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	++	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	-	-	N/A	N/A	N/A
Statistix	Statistix	www.statistix.com	$695	S	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	+
SYSTAT
UNISTAT	UNISTAT Ltd	www.unistat.com	$895	S	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	++	+	++	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
VisualStat	VisualStat Computing	www.visualstat.com	$195	S	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	-	++	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+
XLStat	Kovach Computing	www.kovcomp.co.uk	$395^[6]	X	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	-	++	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	N/A	N/A	N/A

[edit] Notes

^ For noncommercial use
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d GUI interface for the R programming language
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Using R as platform
^ S = Standalone; X = Excel Add-In
^ Includes multivariate linear regression
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Academic discounts available
^ ^a ^b Promo price. Check for availability. Regular prices are higher by up to 50%.
^ ^a ^b Command prompt is used.

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Comparison of statistical packages

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[edit] General information

[edit] Operating system support

[edit] ANOVA

[edit] Regression

[edit] Time series analysis

[edit] Comparison of statistical packages

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

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