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• Using Microsoft Excel for Statistics

  

  By SarahBoslaugh : 30 October 2009 - 01:03 PM

  Microsoft Excel is, properly speaking, not a statistical package at all, although it is sometimes used as one. Excel is a spreadsheet application produced by Microsoft Corporation that is frequently u...

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  • social science
  • analytics
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• Using R for Statistics

  

  By SarahBoslaugh : 30 October 2009 - 12:23 PM

  R is a programming language that functions as a statistical package because of the many pre-written statistical routines (computer code written to perform a particular task) that are available. It dif...

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  • analytics
  • statistics
  • data
  • R

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• Using SAS for Statistics

  

  By SarahBoslaugh : 30 October 2009 - 11:43 AM

  SAS is a statistical software package that was developed at North Carolina State University in the 1960s, and since 1976 has been a commercial product sold by SAS Institute. It is another step up in c...

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  • social science
  • analytics
  • data
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• Using SPSS for Statistics

  

  By SarahBoslaugh : 30 October 2009 - 10:59 AM

  SPSS is a general-purpose statistical computing package sold by SPSS, Inc., which was first released in 1968. It is widely used by social scientists (the name originally meant Statistical Package for ...

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  • social science
  • statistics
  • data
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