GraphPad Prism

GraphPad Prism is a commercial scientific 2D graphing and statistics software published by GraphPad Software, Inc., a privately-held California corporation. Prism is available for both Windows and Macintosh computers.

Features

• Provides statistical guidance for novices.
• Analysis checklists review if an appropriate analysis was performed.
• Nonlinear regression with many options (remove outliers, compare models, compare curves, interpolate standard curves, etc.).
• Live links. When data are edited or replaced, Prism automatically updates the results and graphs.
• Analysis choices can be reviewed, and changed, at any time.
• Automatic error bars. Raw data (replicates) can be entered, and then plotted as mean with SD, SEM or confidence interval.

GraphPad Software Inc. also publishes the commercial software GraphPad InStat and GraphPad StatMate, and the free web-based QuickCalcs.

Published Reviews of Prism

• MacStats
• Biocompare
• Ars Technica
• Scientific Computing
• Science Advisory Board
• American Statistician (Vol. 52, No. 1) A Review of Eight Statistics Software Packages for General Use (Morgan 1998, pp. 70–82)

External links

• GraphPad Software home page
• GraphPad Prism
• Free demo, fully functional for 30 days.
• Prism help system
• PubMed articles citing GraphPad Prism (66 as of Mar. 2011)
• The ROUT method of identifying outliers (implemented in GraphPad Prism).