Comparison of statistical packages

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

Contents 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 9 Reviews of statistical packages

[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	Developer	Latest version date	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
BioStat	AnalystSoft	January 8, 2007	$100[1][2]	No	Proprietary	GUI
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	November 8, 2007	Free	No	Proprietary	CLI/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
Golden Helix	Golden Helix	March 2008		No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
gretl	The gretl Team	March 21, 2008	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
Mathematica	Wolfram Research	February 25, 2008	$1880	No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
MedCalc	Frank Schoonjans	April 22, 2008	$395	No	Proprietary	GUI
modelQED	[marketingqed]	June 15, 2007		No	Proprietary	GUI
Minitab	Minitab Inc.	January 10, 2007	$1195[2]	No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
MRDCL	[1]	January 04, 2008	$4000[2]	No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
NCSS	NCSS Statistical Software		>$399	No	Proprietary	GUI
OpenEpi	A. Dean, K. Sullivan, M. Soe	December 2007	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
Origin	OriginLab		$699	No	Proprietary	GUI
Partek	Partek	June 2007		No	Proprietary	GUI
Primer	Primer-E	February 2007	$500-$1000	No	Proprietary	GUI
PSPP	Pspp	August 3, 2005	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	CLI
R	R Foundation	February 8, 2008	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	CLI
R Commander[4]	John Fox	August 1, 2006	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	CLI/GUI
RATS	Estima	October 1, 2007	$500	No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
RKWard[4]	RKWard Community	February 15, 2007	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	GUI
SalStat	Alan James Salmoni	February 2007	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	GUI
SAS	SAS Institute	March 2008		No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
SOCR	UCLA	November 30, 2006	Free	Yes	GNU GPL	GUI
Stata	Statacorp	June, 2007	$129	No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
Statgraphics	StatPoint	June, 2005	$695 - $1295	No	Proprietary	GUI
STATISTICA	StatSoft		>$695	No	Proprietary	GUI
StatIt	StatIt		>$395	No	Proprietary	GUI
StatPlus	AnalystSoft	January 7, 2007	$150[1][2]	No	Proprietary	GUI
SPlus	Insightful Inc.	2005		No	Proprietary	CLI
SPSS	SPSS Inc.	2007	$1599[2]	No	Proprietary	GUI
StatsDirect	StatsDirect		$179	No	Proprietary	GUI
Statistix	Statistix		$695	No	Proprietary	GUI
SYSTAT	Systat Software Inc.	February 21, 2007	$1299	No	Proprietary	CLI/GUI
UNISTAT	Unistat Ltd	March 15, 2005	$895, $495, $300	No	Proprietary	GUI, Excel
VisualStat	VisualStat Computing		$195	No	Proprietary	GUI
Winpepi	J. H. Abramson	Sep 2007	Free	No	Proprietary	GUI
XLStat	Kovach Computing		$395[2]	No	Proprietary	Excel
XploRe	MD*Tech	2006		No	Proprietary	GUI
Product	Developer	Latest version date	Cost (USD)	Open source	Software license	Interface

[edit] Operating system support

Product	Windows	Mac OS	Linux	BSD	Unix
ADaMSoft	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
MacAnova	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dataplot	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SalStat	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Primer	Yes	No	No	No	No
AcaStat	Yes	No	No	No	No
Analyse-it	Yes	No	No	No	No
BioStat	Yes	No	No	No	No
BrightStat	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	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
gretl	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
JMP	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Mathematica	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
MedCalc	Yes	No	No	No	No
modelQED	Yes	No	No	No	No
Minitab	Yes	Terminated	No	No	No
NCSS	Yes	No	No	No	No
Origin	Yes	No	No	No	No
OpenEpi	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Partek	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
PSPP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R Commander	Yes[5]	Yes[5]	Yes[5]	Yes[5]	Yes
RATS	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
RKWard	No	No	Yes	No	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
Statgraphics	Yes	No	No	No	No
STATISTICA	Yes	No	No	No	No
StatIt	Yes	No	No	No	No
StatPlus	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
SPlus	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
SPSS	Yes	Yes	Yes	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
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

[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
BioStat	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
BrightStat	Yes	Yes	No	No	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
gretl
Mathematica	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
MedCalc	Yes	Yes	No	No	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
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
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
UNISTAT	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
VisualStat	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Winpepi	No	No	No	No	No	No
XLStat	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	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
AcaStat
ADaMSoft	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Analyse-it	Yes
BioStat
BrightStat	Yes				Yes			Yes
EasyReg	Yes		Yes
Epi Info	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
EViews	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
GAUSS
Golden Helix					Yes			Yes
gretl	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Mathematica	Yes	Yes		Yes
MedCalc	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Minitab	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
NCSS	Yes				Yes			Yes
Origin
Partek	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
R	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R Commander[4]	Yes					Yes
RATS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Sagata	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
SAS	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes
SOCR	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Stata	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
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			Yes			Yes
Statistix
SYSTAT	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
UNISTAT	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
VisualStat
Winpepi	Yes				Yes
XLStat	Yes	Yes			Yes
Product	OLS	WLS	2SLS	NLLS	Logistic	GLM	LAD	Stepwise

[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[4]
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
UNITAT	Yes	No	No	No	No
VisualStat
Winpepi
XLStat
Product	ARIMA	GARCH	Unit root test	Cointegration test	VAR	Multivariate GARCH

[edit] Comparison of statistical packages

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Product	Publisher	Web-site	Price	s/w type [6]	Descriptive Statistics		ANOVA						Regression			Nonparametric Statistics		Qua- lity Con- trol	Time Series Analysis		Surv- ival Anal- ysis			Data Processing		Char- ting [7]
					base stat. [8]	norm- ality tests [9]	1way	2way	MANOVA	GLM	post-hoc tests	latin sqrs anal- ysis	linear regres. [10]	polyn. regres.	other [11]	CTA [12]	nonpara- metric comp., ANOVA		base series proc. [13]	analysis [14]		cluster anal- ysis	discri- minant anal- ysis	BDP [15]	Ext. [16]
AcaStat	AcaStat	www.acastat.com	$29	S	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Analyse-it	Analyse-it	www.analyse-it.com	$185-$495[2]	X	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-
BioStat	AnalystSoft	www.analystsoft.com	$100[1][2]	S	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	++	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	+
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	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	-	+	+	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	-
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	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	+
RATS	Estima	www.estima.com	$500	S	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	+
SAS	SAS Institute	www.sas.com		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	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
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	Kovach Computing	www.kovcomp.co.uk	$395[2]	X	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	-	++	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	N/A	N/A	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} Academic discounts/bundles available.
3. ^ For noncommercial use
4. ^ ^{a b c d} GUI interface for the R programming language
5. ^ ^{a b c d} Using R as platform
6. ^ S = Standalone executive; St = Standalone executive, primitive textual (DOS or terminal) interface; X = Excel Plug-In
7. ^ Char-
   ting: for standalone packages
8. ^ Base Statistics (such as t-test, f-test, etc.)
9. ^ Normality Tests, data exploring
10. ^ Includes multivariate linear regression
11. ^ (stepwise or GRM)
12. ^ Contingency Tables Analysis
13. ^ Base Series Processing, f.ex. differing and smoothing
14. ^ Analysis, f.ex. moving average etc.
15. ^ Base Data Processing, f.ex. sorting
16. ^ Extended (data sampling, transformation)

[edit] See also

• Comparison of numerical analysis software
• Comparison of computer algebra systems
• List of statistical packages

[edit] Reviews of statistical packages

• "A Short Preview of Free Statistical Software Packages for Teaching Statistics to Industrial Technology Majors" Ms. Xiaoping Zhu and Dr. Ognjen Kuljaca. Journal of Industrial Technology, (Volume 21-2, April 2005).
• Reviews of free statistical packages