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| ''' [http://www.minitab.com Minitab] ''' [PETER] | ''' [http://www.minitab.com Minitab] ''' An easy-to-use system for doing statistical calculations in an environment that is a cross between a spreadsheet and a command-line programming language. PeterWatson knows more about '''Minitab''' |
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| This suite of programs which runs on unix machines only was written by Gary Perlman. The name '''|stat''' is pronounced '''pipestat'''. It is a suite of statistical and data handling utilities that can be linked together so that the output of one program is the input to the next program. IanNimmoSmith and DennisNorris are local users. | This suite of programs was written by Gary Perlman. The name '''|stat''' is pronounced '''pipestat'''. It is a suite of statistical and data handling utilities that can be linked together so that the output of one program is the input to the next program. IanNimmoSmith and DennisNorris are local users. |
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| ''' [http://www.r-project.org/ R] ''' [IAN] | ''' [http://www.r-project.org/ R] ''' '''R''' has become the statistical computing environment of choice for professional statisticians to develop and share new tools for data analysis and modelling. It developed out of the commercial package '''SPlus''' (see below) but is shareware in the public domain. IanNimmoSmith uses it extensively. |
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~- Last updated on 2 July 2006 -~ |
Statistical Software at the CBU
[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Statistics/Resources/localguide.pdf Guide to locally available software]
This is a rather out-of-date document in Adobe PDF format maintained by IanNimmoSmith. Its main value is that it documents a collection of programs that have built up to meet a variety of in-house needs. pvalues, chisq, mc, and bw are some of the most popular items here.
External websites for various statistical packages
[http://www.nag.co.uk/stats/tt_soft.asp Genstat]
This is a link to NAG's Genstat website. IanNimmoSmith is the CBU expert on this software.
[http://www.nag.co.uk/stats/GDGE_soft.asp GLIM]
GLIM stands for Generalised Linear Interactive Modelling. This is a link to NAG's GLIM website. PeterWatson and IanNimmoSmith can advise on the use of GLIM.
[http://www.minitab.com Minitab]
An easy-to-use system for doing statistical calculations in an environment that is a cross between a spreadsheet and a command-line programming language. PeterWatson knows more about Minitab
[http://www.octave.org/ Octave] [IAN]
[http://www1.acm.org/~perlman/stat/ pipestat = |stat]
This suite of programs was written by Gary Perlman. The name |stat is pronounced pipestat. It is a suite of statistical and data handling utilities that can be linked together so that the output of one program is the input to the next program. IanNimmoSmith and DennisNorris are local users.
R has become the statistical computing environment of choice for professional statisticians to develop and share new tools for data analysis and modelling. It developed out of the commercial package SPlus (see below) but is shareware in the public domain. IanNimmoSmith uses it extensively.
[http://www.spss.com/products/result.cfm?division_id=1&keybrand_id=11&type=keybrands SPSS] [PETER]
[http://www.sas.com/products/index.html SAS] [IAN/PETER]
[http://www.insightful.com/products/splus/default.asp S-PLUS] [IAN]
[:CbuStatistics:Return to Statistics main page]
[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/ Return to CBU main page]
These pages are maintained by [mailto:ian.nimmo-smith@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Ian Nimmo-Smith] and [mailto:peter.watson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Peter Watson]
Last updated on 2 July 2006