Web pointer 13.1 Software for producing graphs

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There is an ample supply of software for producing professional graphs.  Commercial software such as Microsoft Word, Excel and SPSS can produce excellent graphs that can be easily imported into word processing documents and reports.  All the main spreadsheet programs such as Lotus, Quattro etc include excellent graphing software

Graph paper
Download a shareware program to print a variety of types of graph paper for hand drawing your own graphs.

http://perso.easynet.fr/~philimar/
graphpapeng.htm

Deltagraph
A powerful graphing package that can create some stunning pictorial graphs. A download trial package is available

http://www.spss.com/
deltagraph/

Prism Graphpad
A powerful program with a trial download. Probably much more than users of this book would require.

http://www.graphpad.com/
prism/Prism.htm

Charttamer
(Shareware)

www.sebd.com

Clickit Graph 2.5 
(Shareware)

http://www.clickitgraph.com/

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Web pointer 13.2  Links to software for suitable for univariate data analysis

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Good up to date site of commercially available software for software for statistical and social survey analysis.

http://www.asc.org.uk/
Register/

The site is a little out of date but provides links to many social science stats software sites.

http://www.stir.ac.uk/
Departments/Human
Sciences/SocInfo/

SPSS
An excellent, comprehensive and user friendly statistical package which originated as a survey analysis package.  A wide range of statistics, tables and graphs.

EXCEL: Spreadsheet
Part of the Microsoft Office pacakge.  Most other spreadsheets are just as good for common statistical analysis

Most spreadsheet software enables you to simply calculate univariate statistics and produce professional tables and graphs.  They also calculate statistics via statistics functions.  This requires that you have the raw data in the spreadsheet.  You can then apply the function facility to calculate means, standard deviation, skewness, etc. With Excel Simply select INSERT (top menu) FUNCTION / STATISTICAL and then select from the many different statistical functions.

STATISTICA
DEMO 1: The Interactive STATISTICA Application with the Electronic Manual provides access to basic statistics module. It also includes a comprehensive Electronic Manual and many example data files on which you can perform various analyses (using a large selection of provided data sets) and create different kinds of graphs. Downloadable demo version is available

http://www.statsoft.com/
download.html#demo

STATGRAPHICS
Downloadable evaluation version of Statgraphics 5 Includes wide range of statistical and graphics options.  In addition a number of statistics modules (‘Statlets’) are available for download evaluation.  These same statlets are also available for online analysis (see below).

http://www.sgcorp.com/
standard_edition.htm

Glass’s online data analysis
On line analysis software for most stats discussed in this chapter

http://glass.ed.asu.edu/
stats/online.htm

WEBSTAT 
(free online data analysis routines)

http://www.stat.sc.edu/
webstat/version2.0/

http://www.sgcorp.com/
on-line_computing.htm

STATCALC 3
A reasonable and cheap package with downloadable trialware

http://www.acastat.com/
prod01.htm

MODSTAT
This program performs over 250 statistical tests including all those discussed in this chapter.  It is a DOS or Windows program, runs easily with limited RAM and costs only US$22. The learning curve is practically nonexistent.

http://members.aol.com/
rcknodt/pubpage.htm

Sphygmic Software
Get a full-featured spreadsheet for free

http://www.sphygmic.com/
sssheet.htm

As-Easy-As
Use a powerful, versatile spreadsheet

http://www.triusinc.com/

SimStat for Windows v1.3
Excellent and versatile software

WINKS v4.62
WINKS is a novel Windows statistical data analysis and graphing application based on the KWIKSTAT program. It greatly simplifies statistical data analysis and offers an understandable and easy-to-use method of creating a wide range of charts and graphs

XLSTAT v4.4
An excellent Microsoft Excel add-on that offers a wide variety of statistical analysis tools and greatly simplifies the process of statistical analysis with Excel

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Web pointer 13.3  Statistical selection software

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There is a number of useful computer based programs that assist in the selection of the appropriate form of statistical analysis.  You are prompted with simple questions.  When you have answered each question your are advised of a likely method.  Four useful such programs are

Statistics coach

Part of SPSS.  Click the Help button in SPSS to access the Coach

Statistical Advisor

http://www.statsoft.com/
textbook/advisor.html

Selecting statistics

http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/
selstat/ssstart.htm

Knodt’s Help with Statistical analysis

http://members.aol.com/statware/
pubpage.htm#A2SSYY

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