Comparison of statistical packages
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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages.
Product
Developer
Latest version
Open source
Software license
Interface
Written in
Scripting languages
ADaMSoft
Marco Scarno
27 April 2015 (2015-04-27 )
Yes
GNU GPL
CLI , GUI
Java
Alteryx
Alteryx Inc.
2019.2 (June 2019)
No
Proprietary
GUI , Python SDK, js SDK
C#, C++, Python, R, js
R, Python
Analyse-it
Analyse-it
No
Proprietary
GUI
C#, C++, Fortran
ASReml
VSN International
26 March 2014 (2014-03-26 )
No
Proprietary
CLI
BMDP
Statistical Solutions
No
Proprietary
Dataplot
Alan Heckert
2013 (2013 )
Yes
Public domain
CLI , GUI
Fortran
ELKI
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
0.7.5 (15 February 2019 (2019-02-15 ) )
Yes
AGPL
CLI , GUI
Java
Shell (computing)
Epi Info
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
27 June 2016 (2016-06-27 )
Yes
Public domain
CLI , GUI
Microsoft C#
EViews
IHS Markit
14 (June 25, 2024)
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
GAUSS
Aptech Systems
2020 (2020 )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
C, C++
GenStat
VSN International
2015 (2015 )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
GraphPad Prism
GraphPad Software, Inc.
February 2009 (2009-02 )
No
Proprietary
GUI
gretl
The gretl Team
2024d (12 December 2024 (2024-12-12 ) )
Yes
GNU GPL
CLI , GUI
C
hansl
Jamovi
The jamovi project
2023a (14 February 2024 (2024-02-14 ) )
Yes
GNU GPL
GUI
C++, R, JavaScript, Python
JASP
JASP team
University of Amsterdam
0.18.3 (11 January 2024 (2024-01-11 ) )
Yes
GNU GPL
GUI
C++, R, JS, QML
JMP
SAS Institute
16.1 (July 2021 (2021-07 ) )
No
Proprietary
GUI , CLI
JSL (JMP Scripting Language)
LIMDEP
Econometric Software, Inc., William Greene
May 2012 (2012-05 )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
Fortran, C++
Maple
Maplesoft
2024 (6 March 2024; 10 months ago (2024-03-06 ) ) [±] [ 1]
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
Mathematica
Wolfram Research
14.2.0 (January 23, 2025; 0 days ago (2025-01-23 ) ) [±] [ 2]
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
C, Mathematica
Wolfram Language
MATLAB
MathWorks
R2020b (17 September 2020 (2020-09-17 ) )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
C++ , Java, MATLAB
MedCalc
MedCalc Software Ltd
22 (12 May 2023 (2023-05-12 ) )
No
Proprietary
GUI
MedCalc script
Minitab
Minitab, LLC
14 April 2021 (2021-04-14 )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
NCSS
NCSS, LLC
February 2015 (2015-02 )
No
Proprietary
GUI
NLOGIT
Econometric Software, Inc., William Greene
May 2012 (2012-05 )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
Fortran, C++
OpenEpi
A. Dean, K. Sullivan, M. Soe
22 September 2014 (2014-09-22 )
Yes
GNU GPL
GUI
JavaScript, HTML
Orange
Bioinformatics Laboratory, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
10 January 2016 (2016-01-10 )
Yes
GNU GPL
GUI /Python
Python, Cython
Python
Origin
OriginLab
3.23.0 (5 September 2019 (2019-09-05 ) )
No
Proprietary
GUI
C++
LabTalk
Ox programming language
OxMetrics, J.A. Doornik
August 2011 (2011-08 )
No
Proprietary
CLI
OxMetrics
OxMetrics, J.A. Doornik
August 2011 (2011-08 )
No
Proprietary
CLI/GUI
Primer
PRIMER-e
January 2015
No
Proprietary
GUI
PSPP
GNU Project
1.6.2 (2 July 2022 (2022-07-02 ) )[ 3]
Yes
GNU GPL
CLI , GUI
C
Perl (by PSPP-Perl [ 4] )
R
R Foundation
4.4.1 (14 June 2024 (2024-06-14 ) )[ 5]
Yes
GNU GPL
CLI , GUI [ 6]
C, Fortran, R[ 7]
R language , Python (by RPy ), Perl (by Statistics::R module)
R++
Zebrys
1.6.15 (8 December 2023 (2023-12-08 ) ) [ 8]
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
C++, Qt
R language
RKWard
RKWard community
0.7.3 (21 April 2022 (2022-04-21 ) ) [ 9]
Yes
GNU GPL
CLI , GUI
C++, ECMAScript
R language , Python (by RPy ), Perl (by Statistics::R module)
Revolution Analytics
Norman Nie
2007 (2007 )
Yes
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
RATS
Estima
1 October 2010 (2010-10-01 )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
ROOT
ROOT Analysis Framework
6.24.00 (15 April 2021)
Yes
GNU GPL
GUI
C++
C++, Python
SageMath
>100 developers worldwide
9.5 (30 January 2022; 2 years ago (2022-01-30 ) ) [±] [ 10]
Yes
GNU GPL
CLI & GUI
Python, Cython
Python
Salstat
Alan J. Salmoni, Mark Livingstone
16 May 2014 (2014-05-16 )
Yes
GNU GPL
CLI & GUI
Python , NumPy , SciPy
Python
SAS
SAS Institute
9.4M7 (August 2020 (2020-08 ) ), Viya 4 (December 2020 (2020-12 ) )
No
Proprietary
CLI & GUI
C
SAS language , CAS Language (CASL), APIs for R language , Python , Lua , Java
scikit-learn
David Cournapeau , Inria
1.2.0 (6 December 2022 (2022-12-06 ) )
Yes
BSD
CLI
Python , C
Python
SciPy
Enthought
1.5.3 (17 October 2020 (2020-10-17 ) )
Yes
BSD
CLI
Python , C , Fortran
Python
SHAZAM
SHAZAM Analytics Ltd
11.1.4 (April 2015 (2015-04 ) )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
FORTRAN, C++, C
SOCR
UCLA and University of Michigan
3.0 (10 May 2015 (2015-05-10 ) )
Yes
LGPL
GUI
Java
SOFA Statistics
Grant Paton-Simpson
1.5.7 (11 September 2024 (2024-09-11 ) )
Yes
AGPL
GUI
Python
Python
SPlus
Insightful Inc.
2010 (2010 )
No
Proprietary
CLI
SPSS
IBM
28.0 (24 May 2021 (2021-05-24 ) )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
Java, C, C++, Fortran
R, Python, SaxBasic
Stata
StataCorp LLC
17.0 (20 April 2021 (2021-04-20 ) )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
C
ado, Mata
StatCrunch
Pearson Education
3 April 2018 (2018-04-03 )
No
Proprietary
GUI
Statgraphics
Statgraphics Technologies Incorporated
April 2023 (2023-04 )
No
Proprietary
GUI
C++
R, Python
Statistica
Tibco Software
13.5 (October 2018 (2018-10 ) )
No
Proprietary
GUI
C++
R, Statistica Visual Basic (SVB)
StatPlus
AnalystSoft
7.0 (October 2019 (2019-10 ) )
No
Proprietary
GUI
SYSTAT
Systat Software Inc.
21 February 2007 (2007-02-21 )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
TSP
TSP International
September 2009 (2009-09 )
No
Proprietary
CLI
Fortran
Winpepi
J. H. Abramson
June 2008 (2008-06 )
No
Proprietary
GUI
WPS Analytics
World Programming
March 2018 (2018-03 )
No
Proprietary
CLI , GUI
C, Assembler
Python , R , SAS and SQL languages
WINKS
TexaSoft
August 2013 (2013-08 )
No
Proprietary
GUI
Fortran, Visual Basic
XploRe
MD*Tech
2006 (2006 )
No
Proprietary
GUI
Product
Developer
Latest version
Open source
Software license
Interface
Written in
Scripting languages
Operating system support
ANOVA
Support for various ANOVA methods
Regression
Support for various regression methods.
Time series analysis
Support for various time series analysis methods.
Charts and diagrams
Support for various statistical charts and diagrams .
Other abilities
See also
^ a b S = Standalone executive; St = Standalone executive, primitive textual (DOS or terminal) interface; A = Access Add-in; X = Excel Plug-In; C = Cloud (SaaS)
^ a b Base Statistics (such as t-test, f-test, etc.)
^ a b Normality Tests, data exploring
^ a b Contingency Tables Analysis
^ a b Base Data Processing, f.ex. sorting
^ a b Extended (data sampling, transformation)
References
^ "Maplesoft Media Releases" . www.maplesoft.com . Retrieved 2024-05-12 .
^ "Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Big Data Meets Computation & AI" . Retrieved 2025-01-23 .
^ preserved., Copyright 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is. "PSPP – News: PSPP 1.6.2 has been released. [Savannah]" . savannah.gnu.org . Retrieved 2019-01-19 . {{cite web }}
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^ "Patrick Donelan / PSPP-Perl – search.cpan.org" . Retrieved 2011-10-05 .
^ "R: The R Project for Statistical Computing" . Retrieved 2024-07-18 .
^ R is mainly a command line program but the Windows distribution comes with a GUI component called RGui. "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2006-04-11. Retrieved 2018-09-17 .{{cite web }}
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^ Wrathematics (27 August 2011). "How Much of R Is Written in R" . librestats. Retrieved 2011-12-01 .
^ C. Genolini. "R++ 1.6.15" . Zebrys.
^ Tfry (21 April 2022). "RKWard 0.7.3" . RKWard News. Retrieved 2022-04-21 .
^ "SageMath" . sagemath.org. Retrieved 2020-02-15 .
^ "Minitab.com description" . Minitab. Retrieved 15 March 2021 .
^ a b c d Using R as platform "RKWard" . Archived from the original on 2009-07-21. Retrieved 2007-02-03 .
^ Bauer, Nicholas (2019-11-06), Analysis of Variance for Julia, the old-fashioned way.: BioTurboNick/SimpleANOVA.jl , retrieved 2019-11-15
^ Pabst, Marc (2019-11-03), Provides a Simple Way to Calculate ANOVAs From Fitted Linear Models.: marcpabst/ANOVA.jl , retrieved 2019-11-15
^ OneWayANOVA Maple documentation
^ Mutually orthogonal Latin squares Maple documentation
^ "Probability or statistics - Does Mathematica have built-in support for multivariate regression?" .
^ NonlinearFit Maple documentation
^ LogitModelFit Mathematica documentation
^ GeneralizedLinearModelFit Mathematica documentation
^ NormFunction Mathematica documentation
^ ProbitModelFit Mathematica documentation
^ CoxModelFit Mathematica documentation
^ LinearModelFit Mathematica documentation
^ LeastSquaresFitting MATLAB documentation
^ MGARCH Gretl package repository
^ ARIMAProcess Mathematica documentation
^ UnitRootTest Mathematica documentation
^ ARProcess Mathematica documentation
^ GARCHProcess Mathematica documentation
^ BarChart Maple documentation
^ BoxPlot Maple documentation
^ GridPlot Maple documentation
^ Histogram Maple documentation
^ LineChart Maple documentation
^ Scatterplot Maple documentation
^ BarChart Mathematica documentation
^ BoxWhiskerChart Mathematica documentation
^ Correlogram Mathematica Resource Function
^ Histogram Mathematica documentation
^ ListLinePlot Mathematica documentation
^ ListPlot Mathematica documentation
^ ListPointPlot3D Mathematica documentation
^ "DistributionChart—Wolfram Language Documentation" . reference.wolfram.com . Retrieved 2022-03-10 .
^ ShapiroWilkWTest Maple documentation
^ ProcessControl Maple documentation
^ SurvivalAnalysis Mathematica documentation
Further reading
McCullough, B. D. (1999). "Econometric software reliability: EViews, LIMDEP, SHAZAM and TSP". Journal of Applied Econometrics . 14 (2): 191– 202. doi :10.1002/(SICI)1099-1255(199903/04)14:2<191::AID-JAE524>3.0.CO;2-K .
McCullough, B. D.; Vinod, H. D. (1999). "The Numerical Reliability of Econometric Software". Journal of Economic Literature . 37 (2): 633– 665. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.136.9939 . doi :10.1257/jel.37.2.633 . JSTOR 2565215 .
Ooms, Marius (2009). "Trends in Applied Econometrics Software Development 1985–2008: An Analysis of Journal of Applied Econometrics Research Articles, Software Reviews, Data and Code". Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics . Vol. 2: Applied Econometrics. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1321– 1348. ISBN 978-1-4039-1800-0 .
Renfro, Charles G. (2004). Computational Econometrics: Its Impact on the Development of Quantitative Economics . IOS Press. ISBN 1-58603-426-X .
Zhu, Xiaoping; Kuljaca, Ognjen (2005). "A Short Preview of Free Statistical Software Packages for Teaching Statistics to Industrial Technology Majors" (PDF) . Journal of Industrial Technology . 21 (2). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 25, 2005.