Data analysis software
SAS
SAS is available for Windows
through a site license. It is installed in room B3 in the Lab
Building.
R
R is `GNU S', a freely available language and environment for
statistical computing and graphics which provides a wide variety
of statistical and graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear
modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis,
classification, clustering, etc. It is available for Unix,
Linux, Windows, and Mac. It is installed in
B3, but can be
downloaded free.
R home
Local site (with search)
Introduction (html)
(pdf)
R reference card
(see CRAN for other docs)
Good simple intro
R tips
simple R, and Graphical User Interface (both for intro stats),
R for beginners,
Emacs Speaks
Statistics (great interface for R, S-Plus, or SAS)
SPSS
SPSS is available in the McNeil Building, in the
undergraduate data
analysis laboratory. (Undergraduates get priority, but
others can use it.) It is also on computers in
B3
and A2 of the Lab Building, and on the projector computer.
See also
Penn's site licence program, which includes SPSS.
|STAT is an old and venerable set of routines, installed on
Cattell. It is now almost entirely redundant with other free
utilities, such as Unix utilities (cut, paste, sort, etc.) and
languages such as R. A summary of |stat's ~20 data analysis and
data manipulation utilities can be found in either the paper
manual in B3 or online in /pkg/stat/ and many of its
subdirectories. See especially README. There are two copies of
the manual in B-3. The stapled set is for Unix users; the other
(loose photocopied sheets in a manila folder) for some other
platform. There's a slight difference in syntax between the two
(e.g., use of quotation marks in complex expressions). The
manual is also here.
Lisrel is installed on some computers in B3. It is for
structural
equation modeling.
(See also this FAQ.)
JMP IN, a beginner version, is used in several courses taught by
the Statistics department.
General links and advice
Web pages that do statistics
On line textbook
Journal of Statistical Software
Mediation
(
Sobel test calculator)
Rice
virtual lab of statistics
Indices of resources:
Helberg,
UCLA,
York
Archives of programs, data, etc.:
Netlib,
StatLib
Gerald Dallal's page
Jonathan Baron
Last modified: Mon Oct 10 09:42:20 EDT 2005