Thursday, September 14, 2006

My Favorite Statistic and Mathematic Software

My Favorite Statistic and Mathematic Software

R (R and RStudio Portable) is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. This is one of my three musketeers (SAS with callable-SUDAAN, Stata, and R).
Stata: 
Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) and Structural Equation Models related
Engauge Digitizer converts an image file showing a graph or map, into numbers.
Tabula helps you liberate data tables trapped inside PDF files.
Joinpoint is statistical software by the NCI for the analysis of trends using joinpoint models.

Meta Analysis 

Microsoft Excel

PQRS is a tool for calculating probabilities and quantiles associated with a large number of probability distributions.
SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL.

Calculator:
Converber is a unit converter. It is a powerful software utility that will help make easy conversions between 924 various units of measure in 31 categories. Converber converts everything from length and force to flow and temperature. Here is the PortableApps version.

OpenBUGS BUGS (Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling) is for the Bayesian analysis of complex statistical models using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, and is probably best known in its WinBugs incarnations.

PAST is a small, free, and easy-to-use data analysis package originally aimed at paleontology. It includes common statistical, plotting and modelling functions. It needs only one small program, amazing.

Epi Info -- You can use it to develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data, and to produces epidemiologic statistics, tables, graphs, and maps are produced with simple commands. I used this a lot before; it seems fading.

D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents bzsed on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS.

Datawrapper is an open scource tool helping anyone to ceate simple, correct and embeddable charts in minutes.

Venn Diagram: eulerAPE (PLOS ONE), VennMaster, Venn Diagram Plotter

PS is an interactive program for performing power and sample size calculations.
Mondrian is a general purpose statistical data-visualization system.
Scilab -- a scientific software package for numerical computations in a user-friendly environment. This is a sophisticated programming language with a MatLab-like syntax.

MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in documents, emails, and webpages.

PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS. PSPP has both text-based and graphical user interfaces. It sounds good but I have not used it yet.
SaTScan is a free software that analyzes spatial, temporal and space-time data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics.
Zelig is a general purpose statistics program fro estimating, interpreting, and presenting results from any statistical method


You can find more free statistical software here.

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