Statistical package

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A statistical package is a kind of large computer program that is specialised for statistical analysis. It enables people to obtain the results of standard statistical procedures and statistical significance tests, without requiring low-level numerical programming. Most statistical packages also provide facilities for data management.

Examples of commercial statistical packages include (in alphabetical order):

• GenStat
• Macanova
• Minitab
• SAS
• SPSS
• Stata
• Statistica
• StatView
• Systat
• S-PLUS

Many of these are now also the titles of the software companies that produce them (and usually other software as well).

Open-source statistical software includes:

• GNU R
• Xlisp-stat

There are also a multitude of freeware or shareware statistical packages, listed below in the external links page.

External links

• http://www.nag.co.uk/stats/tt_soft.asp (Numerical Algorithms Group site, for information about GenStat)
• http://www.minitab.com
• http://www.sas.com
• http://www.stata.com
• http://www.statsoft.com
• http://www.statview.com
• http://www.systat.com
• http://www.spss.com
• Free Statistical Programs (http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/soft.html)
• John C. Pezzullo's list of free statistical software (http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javasta2.html)
• Free Statistical Software (http://freestatistics.altervista.org/Software.html)

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