Comparison of Statistical Packages 1 Comparison of Statistical Packages
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Comparison of statistical packages 1 Comparison of statistical packages The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages. 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 Example(s) Developer Latest version Cost (USD) Open Software Interface Written Scripting source license in languages ADaMSoft Marco Scarno May 5, 2012 Free Yes GNU GPL CLI/GUI Java Analyse-it Analyse-it $185–495 No Proprietary GUI VSN October 2009 >$150 Proprietary CLI ASReml No International Statistical $1095 Proprietary BMDP No Solutions Alan Heckert March 2005 Public CLI/GUI Dataplot Free Yes domain Centers for January 26, Public CLI/GUI Visual Disease 2011 domain Basic Epi Info Free Yes Control and Prevention IHS November student: $40 / acad: Proprietary CLI/GUI EViews No 2011 $425 / comm: $1075 Aptech October 2011 Proprietary CLI/GUI GAUSS No systems VSN July 2011 >$190 Proprietary CLI/GUI GenStat No International GraphPad GraphPad Feb. 2009 $595 Proprietary GUI No Prism Software, Inc. The gretl December 22, GNU GPL CLI/GUI C gretl Team 2011 Free Yes SAS Institute October, 2010 $1895 (commercial) Proprietary GUI/CLI JSL (JMP $29.95/$49.95 Scripting JMP No (student) $495 for Language) H.S. site licence Maplesoft March 28, 2012 $2275 (commercial), Proprietary CLI/GUI Maple No $99 (student) Wolfram 8.0.4, October $2,495 Proprietary CLI/GUI Research 2011 (Professional), $1095 (Education), Mathematica $140 (Student), No $69.95 (Student [3] annual license) [4] $295 (Personal) Comparison of statistical packages 2 The New releases Depends on many Proprietary CLI/GUI Java MATLAB No MathWorks twice per year things. MedCalc November 14, $395 Proprietary GUI MedCalc No Software bvba 2010 [2] Minitab Inc. May 18, 2010 $895–$1395 Proprietary CLI/GUI perpetual, $542 or Minitab less concurrent No annual, $29.99/$49.99/$99.99 academic NCSS, LLC December 1, [2] Proprietary GUI NCSS $495 acad., $795 No 2007 comm. CenterSpace November [2] Proprietary CLI NMath Stats ($1295) No Software 2009 Spider October 2009 Lite version (Free), Proprietary GUI NumXL Financial Professional edition No [2] ($300) A. Dean, K. June 23, 2011 GNU GPL GUI JavaScript, OpenEpi Sullivan, M. Free Yes HTML Soe OriginLab November,2011 student: $50 / acad: Proprietary GUI C++ Labtalk Origin No $550 / comm: $1095 Ox OxMetrics, August 2011 Free for Academic Proprietary CLI programming J.A. Doornik use No language OxMetrics, August 2011 student or academic Proprietary CLI/GUI J.A. Doornik use: licensed OxMetrics No commercial use: $500 and over Primer Primer-E February 2007 $500–$1000 No Proprietary GUI GNU Project February 4, GNU GPL CLI/GUI C Perl (by PSPP 2012 Free Yes PSPP-Perl [5] ) [6] R Foundation April 13, 2011 GNU GPL CLI/GUI C Python (by RPy), Perl R Free Yes (by Statistics::R module) Lièvre August 4, 2011 GNU GPL CLI/GUI R [7] Benjamin, Free Yes Commander John Fox Norman Nie 2007 Academic version Proprietary CLI/GUI Revolution (Free), Professional Yes Analytics edition license fee Estima October 1, $500 Proprietary CLI/GUI RATS No 2010 RKWard February 15, GNU GPL GUI [7] Free Yes RKWard Community 2007 Comparison of statistical packages 3 ROOT June 30, 2010 GNU GPL GUI C++ C++, ROOT Analysis Free Yes Python Framework >100 4.5.2, August GNU GPL CLI & GUI Python, Python, developers 2010 Cython SQL, Java, SAGE Free Yes worldwide .NET, C++, FORTRAN Alan J. 2004 GNU GPL CLI & GUI Python, Python Salstat Salmoni, Mark Free Yes Numpy, Livingstone Scipy SAS Institute December 2011 ~$6000 per seat (PC Proprietary CLI/GUI version) / ~$28K per processor (Windows server) first-year fees for BASE, STAT, GRAPH, and SAS ACCESS modules. No Modules are licensed individually. Subsequent year fees are roughly [2] half. Elastix Ltd May 2011 Pro $490 / Std. $390 Proprietary CLI/GUI SHAZAM / Site Lic: / Std. No $1200 / Pro $1600 SigmaXL Inc. January 18, $249 perpetual Proprietary GUI SigmaXL No 2011 license Provalis 2010 $255-$695 perpetual Proprietary CLI/GUI SimStat No Research license UCLA October 28, LGPL GUI Java SOCR Free Yes 2008 SOFA Grant April 2010 AGPL GUI Free Yes Statistics Paton-Simpson SPlus Insightful Inc. 2010 $2399/year No Proprietary CLI IBM 2011 [2] Proprietary CLI/GUI Java Python, SPSS $4975 No SaxBasic StataCorp July 2011 academic starting at Proprietary CLI/GUI C ado, mata [2] Stata $595 / industry No starting at $1,195 Statgraphics StatPoint October, 2009 $695 – $1495 No Proprietary GUI StatSoft November, >$695 Proprietary GUI STATISTICA No 2010 [1][2] StatPlus AnalystSoft January 7, 2007 $150 No Proprietary GUI Systat February 21, $1299 Proprietary CLI/GUI SYSTAT No Software Inc. 2007 TSP September student: $120 / Proprietary CLI Fortran TSP International 2009 academic: $600 / No commercial: $1200 Comparison of statistical packages 4 UNISTAT Unistat Ltd April 8, 2011 $895, $495, $300 No Proprietary GUI, Excel J. H. June 2008 Proprietary GUI Winpepi Free No Abramson World February 2012 $ Proprietary CLI/GUI C, SAS WPS No Programming Assmebler language [2] XLSTAT Addinsoft Inc. May 2012 $395 No Proprietary Excel XploRe MD*Tech 2006 No Proprietary GUI Product Example(s) Developer Latest version Cost (USD) Open Software Interface source license Operating system support Product Windows Mac OS Linux BSD Unix ADaMSoft Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Analyse-it Yes No No No No BMDP Yes Dataplot Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Epi Info Yes No No No No EViews Yes Yes No No No GAUSS Yes Yes Yes No Yes GraphPad Prism Yes Yes No No No gretl Yes Yes Yes No No JMP Yes Yes Yes No No JHepWork Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Maple Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Matlab Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Mathematica Yes Yes Yes No Yes MedCalc Yes No No No No Minitab Yes Terminated No No No NCSS Yes No No No No NMath Stats Yes No No No No NumXL Yes No No No No OpenEpi Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Origin Yes No No No No Primer Yes No No No No PSPP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [8] [8] [8] [8] R Commander Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes RATS Yes Yes Yes No Yes RKWard Yes No Yes No Yes Comparison of statistical packages 5 ROOT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sage Partial Yes Yes No Yes Salstat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SAS Yes Terminated Yes No Yes SHAZAM Yes No No No No SigmaXL Yes No No No No SimStat Yes SOCR Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SOFA Statistics Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SPlus Yes No Yes No Yes SPSS Yes Yes Yes No No Stata Yes Yes Yes No Yes Statgraphics Yes No No No No STATISTICA Yes No No No No StatPlus Yes Yes No No No SYSTAT Yes No No No No TSP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes UNISTAT Yes No No No No The Unscrambler Yes No No No No Winpepi Yes No No No No WPS Yes Yes Yes No Yes XLSTAT Yes Yes No No No XploRe Yes No Yes No Yes Product Windows Mac OS Linux BSD Unix ANOVA Support for various ANOVA methods Product One-way Two-way MANOVA GLM Mixed model Post-hoc Latin squares ADaMSoft Yes Yes No No No No No Analyse-it Yes Yes No No Yes No No BMDP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Epi Info Yes Yes No No No No No EViews Yes GAUSS No No No No No GenStat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes GraphPad Prism Yes Yes No No Yes No gretl JMP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Mathematica Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Comparison of statistical packages 6 MedCalc Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Minitab Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NCSS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NMath Stats Yes Yes No No No No Origin Yes Yes No No Yes No PSPP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes R Commander Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Salstat Yes No No No No No SAS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SHAZAM Yes Yes No Yes Yes No SigmaXL Yes Yes No No No SimStat Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No SOCR Yes Yes No No Yes Yes SOFA Statistics Yes No No No No No Stata Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Statgraphics Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes STATISTICA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes StatPlus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SPlus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SPSS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SYSTAT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes TSP No No No No No No UNISTAT Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes The Unscrambler Yes No No No No No Winpepi Yes Yes No No No No WPS Yes No No Yes Yes Yes XLSTAT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Product One-way Two-way MANOVA GLM Mixed model Post-hoc Latin squares Regression Support for various regression methods. Comparison of statistical packages 7 Product OLS WLS 2SLS NLLS Logistic GLM LAD Stepwise Quantile Probit Cox Poisson MLR ADaMSoft Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes Analyse-it Yes BMDP Yes Yes Yes Yes Epi Info Yes No No No Yes No No No EViews Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes GAUSS No No GenStat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes GraphPad Prism Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No No No Yes gretl Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes JMP Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] Mathematica Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes MedCalc Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes Minitab Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes No NCSS Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes NMath Stats Yes Yes Yes Yes Origin PSPP Yes R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [7] R Commander Yes Yes No RATS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Salstat No No No No No No No No No No No No SAS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SHAZAM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SigmaXL Yes Yes Yes SimStat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SOCR