The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages.
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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 | Written in | Scripting languages |
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ADaMSoft | Marco Scarno | January 24, 2008 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | CLI/GUI | Java | ||
Analyse-it | Analyse-it | $185–495 | No | Proprietary | GUI | ||||
ASReml | VSN International | October 2009 | >$150 | No | Proprietary | CLI | |||
BMDP | Statistical Solutions | $1095 | No | Proprietary | |||||
Dataplot | Alan Heckert | March 2005 | Free | Yes | Public domain | CLI/GUI | |||
Epi Info | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | January 26, 2011 | Free | Yes | Public domain | CLI/GUI | Visual Basic | ||
EViews | IHS | November 2011 | student: $40 / acad: $425 / comm: $1075 | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
GAUSS | Aptech systems | October 2011 | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | ||||
GenStat | VSN International | July 2008 | >$190 | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
GraphPad Prism | GraphPad Software, Inc. | Feb. 2009 | $595 | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
gretl | The gretl Team | November 29, 2010 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | CLI/GUI | C | ||
JMP | SAS Institute | October, 2010 | $1895 (commercial) $29.95/$49.95 (student) $495 for H.S. site licence | No | Proprietary | GUI/CLI | JSL (JMP Scripting Language) | ||
Maple | Maplesoft | April, 2009 | $2275 (commercial), $99 (student) | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
Mathematica | Wolfram Research | 8.0.4, October 2011 | $2,495 (Professional), $1095 (Education), $140 (Student), $69.95 (Student annual license) [3] $295 (Personal)[4] | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
MATLAB | The MathWorks | New releases twice per year | Depends on many things. | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
MedCalc | MedCalc Software bvba | November 14, 2010 | $395 | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
Minitab | Minitab Inc. | May 18, 2010 | $895–$1395[2] perpetual, $542 or less concurrent annual, $29.99/$49.99/$99.99 academic | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
NMath Stats | CenterSpace Software | November 2009 | ($1295)[2] | No | Proprietary | CLI | |||
NumXL | Spider Financial | October 2009 | Lite version (Free), Professional edition ($300) [2] | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
OpenEpi | A. Dean, K. Sullivan, M. Soe | June 23, 2011 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | GUI | JavaScript, HTML | ||
Origin | OriginLab | November,2011 | student: $50 / acad: $550 / comm: $1095 | No | Proprietary | GUI | C++ | Labtalk | |
Ox programming language | OxMetrics, J.A. Doornik | August 2009 | Free for Academic use | No | Proprietary | CLI | |||
OxMetrics | OxMetrics, J.A. Doornik | August 2009 | student or academic use: free
commercial use: $1805 and over |
No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
Primer | Primer-E | February 2007 | $500–$1000 | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
PSPP | pspp | May 05, 2011 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | CLI/GUI | C | Perl (by PSPP-Perl [5]) | |
R | R Foundation | April 13, 2011 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | CLI/GUI[6] | C | Python (by RPy), Perl (by Statistics::R module) | |
R Commander[7] | Lièvre Benjamin , John Fox | August 4, 2011 | 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 | |||
ROOT | ROOT Analysis Framework | June 30, 2010 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | GUI | C++ | C++, Python | |
SAGE | >100 developers worldwide | 4.5.2, August 2010 | Free | Yes | GNU GPL | CLI & GUI | Python, Cython | Python, SQL, Java, .NET, C++, FORTRAN | |
SAS | SAS Institute | March 2008 | ~$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 | |||
SHAZAM | Elastix Ltd | July 2007 | Pro $490 / Std. $390 / Site Lic: / Std. $1200 / Pro $1600 | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
SigmaXL | SigmaXL Inc. | January 18, 2011 | $249 perpetual license | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
SOCR | UCLA | October 28, 2008 | Free | Yes | LGPL | GUI | Java | ||
SOFA Statistics | Grant Paton-Simpson | April 2010 | Free | Yes | AGPL | GUI | |||
SPlus | Insightful Inc. | 2005 | $2399/year | No | Proprietary | CLI | |||
SPSS | IBM | 2011 | $4975[2] | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | Java | Python, SaxBasic | |
Stata | StataCorp | July 2011 | academic starting at $595[2] / industry starting at $1,195 | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | C | ado, mata | |
Statgraphics | StatPoint | October, 2009 | $695 – $1495 | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
STATISTICA | StatSoft | November, 2010 | >$695 | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
StatPlus | AnalystSoft | January 7, 2007 | $150[1][2] | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
SYSTAT | Systat Software Inc. | February 21, 2007 | $1299 | No | Proprietary | CLI/GUI | |||
TSP | TSP International | September 2009 | student: $120 / academic: $600 / commercial: $1200 | No | Proprietary | CLI | Fortran | ||
UNISTAT | Unistat Ltd | April 8, 2011 | $895, $495, $300 | No | Proprietary | GUI, Excel | |||
Winpepi | J. H. Abramson | June 2008 | Free | No | Proprietary | GUI | |||
WPS | World Programming | July 2011 | $ | No | Proprietary | 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 |
Product | Windows | Mac OS | Linux | BSD | Unix |
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ADaMSoft | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Analyse-it | Yes | No | No | No | No |
BMDP | Yes | ||||
Dataplot | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Epi Info | Yes | No | No | No | No |
EViews | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
GAUSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
GraphPad Prism | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
gretl | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
JMP | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
JHepWork | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Maple | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
Matlab | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
Mathematica | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
MedCalc | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Minitab | Yes | Terminated | No | No | No |
NMath Stats | Yes | No | No | No | No |
NumXL | Yes | No | No | No | No |
OpenEpi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Origin | Yes | No | No | 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 | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
ROOT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sage | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
SAS | Yes | Terminated | Yes | No | Yes |
SHAZAM | Yes | No | No | No | No |
SigmaXL | Yes | No | No | No | No |
SOCR | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SOFA Statistics | 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 |
StatPlus | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
SYSTAT | Yes | No | No | No | No |
TSP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
UNISTAT | Yes | No | No | No | No |
The Unscrambler | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Winpepi | Yes | No | No | No | No |
XLSTAT | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
XploRe | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Product | Windows | Mac OS | Linux | BSD | Unix |
Support for various ANOVA methods
Product | One-way | Two-way | MANOVA | GLM | Post-hoc tests | Latin squares analysis |
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ADaMSoft | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Analyse-it | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
BMDP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Epi Info | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
EViews | Yes | |||||
GAUSS | No | No | No | No | No | |
GenStat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GraphPad Prism | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
gretl | ||||||
JMP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mathematica | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
MedCalc | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Minitab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
NMath Stats | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Origin | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
PSPP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
R | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
R Commander | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
SAS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SHAZAM | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
SigmaXL | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
SOCR | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
SOFA Statistics | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Stata | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Statgraphics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
STATISTICA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
StatPlus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SPlus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SPSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SYSTAT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
TSP | No | No | No | No | No | No |
UNISTAT | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The Unscrambler | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Winpepi | 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 |
Support for various regression methods.
Product | OLS | WLS | 2SLS | NLLS | Logistic | GLM | LAD | Stepwise | Quantile regression | Probit | Poisson | MLR |
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ADaMSoft | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||||
Analyse-it | Yes | |||||||||||
BMDP | 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 | Yes |
GAUSS | No | No | ||||||||||
GenStat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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 | |
JMP | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | 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 | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | |||
NMath Stats | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
Origin | ||||||||||||
PSPP | ||||||||||||
R | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
R Commander[7] | Yes | Yes | No | |||||||||
RATS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
SAS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SHAZAM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SigmaXL | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
SOCR | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ||||
SPlus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
SPSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | |||
Stata | Yes | 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 | |||
StatPlus | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||||
SYSTAT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||
TSP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
UNISTAT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
The Unscrambler | ||||||||||||
Winpepi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
XLSTAT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
Product | OLS | WLS | 2SLS | NLLS | Logistic | GLM | LAD | Stepwise | Quantile regression | Probit | Poisson | MLR |
Support for various time series analysis methods.
Product | ARIMA | GARCH | Unit root test | Cointegration test | VAR | Multivariate GARCH |
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Analyse-it | ||||||
BMDP | Yes | |||||
EViews | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GAUSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
GraphPad Prism | No | No | No | No | No | |
gretl | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
JMP | Yes | |||||
Mathematica | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
MedCalc | No | No | No | No | No | |
Minitab | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
NumXL | Yes | Yes | ||||
NMath Stats | ||||||
Origin | ||||||
PSPP | ||||||
R | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
R Commander[7] | ||||||
RATS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SAS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SHAZAM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
SOCR | No | No | No | No | No | |
Stata | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Statgraphics | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
STATISTICA | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
StatPlus | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
SPlus | Yes | Yes | ||||
SPSS | Yes | |||||
SYSTAT | Yes | |||||
TSP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
UNISTAT | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Winpepi | ||||||
XLSTAT | ||||||
Product | ARIMA | GARCH | Unit root test | Cointegration test | VAR | Multivariate GARCH |
Support for various statistical charts and diagrams.
Chart | Bar chart | Box plot | Correlogram | Histogram | Line chart | Scatterplot |
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ADaMSoft | ||||||
Analyse-it | ||||||
BMDP | Yes | Yes | ||||
Epi Info | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
EViews | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GAUSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
GenStat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GraphPad Prism | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
gretl | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
JMP | 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 |
NMath Stats | ||||||
Origin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
PSPP | ||||||
R | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
R Commander | ||||||
RATS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SAS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SHAZAM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SigmaXL | 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 |
StatPlus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SPlus | ||||||
SPSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SYSTAT | ||||||
TSP | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
UNISTAT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The Unscrambler | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Winpepi | Yes | Yes | ||||
XLSTAT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Chart | Bar chart | Box plot | Correlogram | Histogram | Line chart | Scatterplot |
Product | s/w type [18] |
Descriptive statistics | Nonparametric statistics | Quality control |
Survival analysis |
Data processing | |||||
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Base stat.[19] |
Normality tests[20] |
CTA[21] | Nonparametric comparison, ANOVA |
Cluster analysis |
Discriminant analysis |
BDP[22] | Ext.[23] | ||||
Analyse-it | X | + | + | + | + | - | - | - | - | + | + |
BMDP | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | ||||
Epi Info | S | + | - | + | + | - | + | - | - | + | + |
Gauss | St | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | + | + |
GenStat | St | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
GraphPad Prism | S | + | + | - | + | - | + | - | - | - | - |
JMP | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
Mathematica | S | + | + | + | + | - | - | + | - | + | + |
MedCalc | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | - | + | + |
Minitab | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
NMath Stats | S | + | + | - | - | - | - | + | - | - | - |
OpenEpi | S | + | - | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Origin | S | + | + | - | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
PSPP | S | + | + | ||||||||
R | St | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
RATS | S | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | + | + |
SAS | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
SHAZAM | S | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | + | + |
SigmaXL | X | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | ||
SOCR | S | + | + | + | + | - | + | + | - | + | + |
SOFA Statistics | S | - | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Stata | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
Statgraphics | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
STATISTICA | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
StatPlus | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | - | + | + |
SPlus | St | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
SPSS | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
SYSTAT | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
TSP | S | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | + | + |
UNISTAT | S | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
The Unscrambler | S | + | + | ||||||||
Winpepi | S | + | + | + | + | - | + | + | - | - | - |
XLSTAT | X | + | + | + | + | - | + | + | + | N/A | + |
Product | s/w type [18] |
Descriptive statistics | Nonparametric statistics | Quality control |
Survival analysis |
Data processing | |||||
Base stat.[19] |
Normality tests[20] |
CTA[21] | Nonparametric comparison, ANOVA |
Cluster analysis |
Discriminant analysis |
BDP[22] | Ext.[23] |
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