220R90005
STATISTICAL SOFTWARE
FOR MICROCOMPUTERS
A Compilation
of Product Reviews
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PREFACE
At the request of the EPA Statistical Policy
Advisory Committee, this directory was
prepared by the EPA National Data Processing
Division's Information Centers Branch and the
EPA Library at the Environmental Research
Center in Research Triangle Park, NC. The
intent was to provide one concise source of
information about microcomputer software for
use in, or closely related to, statistical
applications.
The information in this directory was
extracted from these databases:
File 237: Micro Software Directory
©1989 Dialog Information Services, Inc.
File 275: Software Review
©1988 Dialog Information Services, Inc,
January 1990
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Table of Contents
Alphabetical Listing of Products 1
Software for the IBM PC 16
Software for the Macintosh 29
The following synopses are presented first in alphabetical order
by product name, then according to the computer for which they
were written. No ranking or quality assessment is implied by the
order in which products are discussed. Quoted prices are retail
list as of the time the reviews were written.
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Alphabetical Listing of Products
Product: Abstat 5.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $395
Company name: Anderson-Bell Corporation
Synopsis: A low-end package offering basic functions such as
cross-tabulations, correlations, linear regressions. Can share
with dBase, 1-2-3, and Symphony, and with most other software
through ASCII. "Designed for the nonspecialist." Written in
Turbo Pascal.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Asyst 3.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $1695-$2295, depending on options purchased
Company name: Asyst Software Technologies
Synopsis: Requires 640K RAM, math coprocessor, parallel port,
graphic cards, and DOS 2.0 or later. Has a Forth-like
programming language, reverse Polish notation syntax. Advanced
graphics capabilities. Copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89.
Product: Autobox Plus 2.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $995-$1195
Company name: Automatic Forecasting Systems, Inc.
Synopsis: A time-series analysis package capable of user-defined
and automatic ARIMA forecasting methods. Includes Box-Jenkins
methodology, intervention detection, and transfer-function
capabilities. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Autocast II 1.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495
Company name: Levenbach Associates
Synopsis: A forecasting package that analyzes future trends and
seasonal cycles. Menu-driven with a spreadsheet-style editor for
entering data. Includes automatic model selection, trend curve,
and seasonal decomposition. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/69
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Product: BMDP-PC
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $395
Company name: BMDP Statistical Software
Synopsis: A high-end statistical analysis package with data
management capability/ a full-screen editor, and high resolution
graphics. Includes most basic and advanced statistical features,
including logistic regression, repeated measures analysis,
survival analysis, Box-Jenkins time series, Mann-Whitney rank sum
test, and others. "Aimed at professional data analysts and
statisticians." Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Crunch Statistical Package 3.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495
Company name: Crunch Software Corporation
Synopsis: A low-end package composed of several programs written
in compiled BASIC tied together by a central control program.
Features extensive data management and transformation utilities.
Able to import data from ASCII, dBase, and .DIF files.
"Appealing package for the social and biological sciences." Copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: CSS 2.1 (Complete Statistical System)
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495
Company name: Statsoft Inc.
Synopsis: An advanced menu-driven statistical analysis package
requiring 8MB of disk space. It can import and export ASCII,
Lotus 1-2-3, and dBase files, and comes with FORTRAN, C, Pascal,
and BASIC source code to read and write CSS data files. Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Data Desk Professional
Platforms: Macintosh Plus, SE, or Macintosh II
Price: $495
Company name: Odesta Corp.
Synopsis: An introductory statistical analysis program with
pull-down menus. Variables can be grouped into bundles and
represented by icons for manipulation. Includes t-tests, one-way
factorial variances, principal-component, and principal-factor
analyses. Also performs descriptive statistics, correlations,
and partial correlations.
Sources of additional information: Infoworld, 8/24/88
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Product: Decision Graphics 3.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $450
Company name: Samna Corp.
Synopsis: A macro-driven business package with statistical and
database functions. Includes standard graphing features and a
variety of analytical functions such as growth rate, moving
average, linear regression, and logarithms. Output designed for
plotters. Written in compiled BASIC. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 9/27/88, 3/14/89
Product: Exec*U*Stat 1.4
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $295
Company name: Strategy Plus Inc.
Synopsis: "An introductory statistics and graphics package for
the non-statistician." Strong on descriptive methods, estimation
and testing, regression, forecasting, and analysis of variance.
Performs good basic plotting and allows user to manipulate and
annotate graphs. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Fastat
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $195
Company name: Systat Inc.
Synopsis: An easy-to-use package with a good selection of
statistics and graphics features targeted at the education
market. Of limited use to the professional statistician but
useful to students because of its good user interface.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3//14/89
Product: Forecast Plus 2.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Walonick Associates Inc.
iSynopsis: Designed for users familiar with forecasting. Written
in BASIC. Uses a menu structure where users supply numeric
choices to select the action to be carried out. Setting the
choices and generating plots requires some technical expertise.
Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: Forecast Pro 1.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495
Company name: Business Forecast Systems, Inc.
Synopsis: A business forecasting package with a rule-based
expert system that guides users through every step of the
forecasting process. Includes three statistical methods: the
Holt-Winter's family of exponential smoothing, Box-Jenkins, and
dynamic regression. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: GB-Stat 1.5
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $300
Company name: New England Software
Synopsis: A menu-driven statistical analysis package with 300
procedures for data management and statistical analyses,
including parametric and nonparametric procedures, reliability
statistics, and multivariate and univariate analyses. Compatible
with Ventura Publisher and PageMaker. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: Infoworld, 4/24/69
Product: Grapher 1.76
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $199
Company name: Golden Software, Inc.
Synopsis: A menu-driven program allowing user to represent
10,000 XY data pairs with ten different scales on one graph.
Provides six methods of fitting functions to data: linear,
spline, power, exponential, polynomial and logarithmic. Does not
produce bar graphs. Written in C. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Graftool 1.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495
Company name: 3-D Visions
Synopsis: A menu-driven scientific and engineering 3-D graphics
program providing an integrated scientific spreadsheet for
generating data. It has the ability to mix plots in various
coordinate systems and manipulate each of the plots
independently. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Graph-in-the-box 1.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $200
Company name: New England Software, Inc.
Synopsis: A two-dimensional graphics package that can be run as
a TSR or as a nonresident program. It can perform simple data
manipulations and calculations. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: Javelin Plus
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $250
Company name: Javelin Software Corp.
Synopsis: A unique business modeling and analysis spreadsheet
program which builds models of variable names instead of rows and
columns. Text and numbers can be imported and exported/ but
formulas cannot. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 10/27/87
Product: Knowledgeman2 2.5
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $695, single user; $1995, multiuser
Company nama: mdbs Inc.
Synopsis: "A tool for a comprehensive and totally integrated
decision support system." Capabilities include data management,
ad hoc inquiries, spreadsheet analysis, statistical analysis,
screen management, report forms management and structured
programming. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 11/15/88
Product: Labview 2.0
Platforms: Macintosh 4.1 or later
Price: $1995
Company name: National Instruments
Synopsis: A data acquisition and analysis package using the G
graphics language which allows programming by a block diagram
approach. Applications can be designed for automatic data
collection and management, signal and transient analysis, and
process control. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: MacUser, July 1989
Product: Mathview Professional
Platforms: Macintosh 4.1 or later
Price: $250
Synopsis: An engineering and computational program combining two
and three dimensional plotting with routines for matrices,
differential equations, and integrals. Includes clipboard for
transferring data. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: MacUser, September 1988
Product: Medlog
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $6500
Company name: Information Analysis Corporation
Synopsis: A menu-driven database and statistical analysis
package designed for time-oriented medical research handling over
65,000 patients per database with 1,000 variables. Includes
basic and advanced statistics from t-tests to nonparametric
statistics.
Sources of additional information: MD Computing, Jan./Feb. 1989
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Product: Microstat II 1.5
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $395
Company name: Ecosoft, Inc.
Synopsis: A menu-driven package that presents a spreadsheet for
entering data. Techniques include descriptive statistics, core
tabulations, and frequency distributions. "Speedy, but lacking
in statistical procedures documentation and limited in graphics.'
Written in C. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: Infoworld, 1/30/89; PC
Magazine 3/14/89
Product: Minitab Statistical Software 6.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $695
Company name: Minitab, Inc.
Synopsis: A low-end, command-driven general-purpose package that
includes descriptive statistics, flexible plotting, analysis of
variance, and the Box-Jenkins procedure for exploratory data
analysis. Includes macro capability. Written in Fortran. Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: MTS 2.0
Platforms: IBMPC
Price: $995
Company name: Automatic Forecasting Systems Inc.
Synopsis: Provides very fast and accurate forecasts in
identifying, estimating, and forecasting univariate and
multivariate time series. Limited facilities for time series
analysis, but its automatic mode produces models and forecasts
from raw data with no input from the user. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: NCSS 5.01 (Number Cruncher Statistical System)
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $99
Company name: NCSS Inc.
Synopsis: An easy-to-learn but inflexible package with numerous
statistical procedures, superb graphics, good documentation and
technical support. Only in the area of data transformation can
the user do something that the vendor has not already
anticipated. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: NWA Statpak 4.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495; $950, network version
Company name: Northwest Analytical, Inc.
Synopsis: A low-end, multi-function statistics library. Uses
ASCII text files for data and report interface to other software.
Functions include probability, descriptive statistics,
crosstabulation, and more. Written in compiled BASIC. Requires
512K RAM and graphics card.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine 3/14/89
Product: Otis 1.2
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $995
Company name: Odin Research
Synopsis: An econometric modeling statistical analysis package
allowing users to perform analyses and incorporate database
features for maintaining time-series data. Easy to learn and use
but lacks advanced built-in statistical functions. Designed
mainly for numerical manipulation. Copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Parameter Manager Plus 3.02
Platforms: Macintosh 4.1 or later
Price: $595
Company name: GenRad Inc.
Synopsis: A desktop technical analyzer and graphing application
that stores data in chronological order based on time or
sequence. Capable of handling large data sets with resolution
plotting of up to 32,000 data points per variable. Hoc copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: MacUser July 1989
Product: PC Anova I.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $200
Company name: Human Systems Dynamics
Synopsis: A low-end, general purpose package that performs
analyses of covariance and Latin square analyses as well as
Newman-Keuls and Duncan's Multiple Range tests. Written in
compiled BASIC . Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: PC-GSA+ III.32
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Scientific Computing Associates
Synopsis: A general statistical analysis package that can be
used as a standalone or in conjunction with other SCA products.
A command driven program that is particularly powerful in time-
series analysis.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: PC Statistician 1.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $300
Company name: Human Systems Dynamics
Synopsis: A low-end general purpose statistical package with 1-
to 5-way cross-tabulation capability, t-tests, anova, regression,
parametric and nonparametric tests, and five measures of
correlation. Written in compiled BASIC. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Powerstation 1.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $895-$2300
Company name: Alphametrics Corporation
Synopsis: An integrated econometric modeling package featuring
data plotting, forecasting, descriptive and comparative
statistics, and time-series regression. Provides a large
selection of data management functions and has the ability to
link with spreadsheet and other common programs. Copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Predict 1.3
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $795
Company name: Unison Technology, Inc.
Synopsis: A knowledge of statistics, probability, and sample
statistics is required to use this simulation program in which
situations can be analyzed where some values are uncertain.
Written in Microsoft C. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC World, October 1987
Product: Pro*Cast 2.2
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $295
Company name: Fleming Software
Synopsis: An easy to use forecasting statistical analysis package
with pop-down menus and well-designed graphic screens. Does not
include enough tools for data exploration, and graphics
capabilities are limited. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC World, 3/14/89
Product: Prodas 3.2
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $365-$720
Company name: Conceptual Software Inc.
Synopsis: A program-driven statistical database management
system with a programming vocabulary and a range of graph types.
Contains a menu command and macro facility to build a customized
interface for the system or the. user's own applications. Not
copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: Research 1.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $695
Company name: Economic Software/ Inc.
Synopsis: An easily accessible main menu provides graphics,
statistics/ database management/ and file transfer capabilities.
Helpful in managing, graphing/ and analyzing data used in
investment and economic analyses plus business forecasting.
Sources of additional information: PC Week/ 3/26/85
Product: SAS
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495
Company name: SAS Institute
Synopsis: A modular system of statistical analysis software
offering both interactive and batch processing through a menu
system or an expert command language. Includes descriptive
statistics/ rank and standard scoring/ report generations, and a
set of utilities.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine/ 3/14/89
Product: SDS 2.12
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $995
Company name: Design Professionals Management Systems
Synopsis: A scientific graphing program that plots a contour map
or a three-dimensional, wire-mesh depiction of the z values using
the Kriging algorithm. A command-driven program/ with user typing
variables on the command line followed by their values. Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine/ 3/14/89
Product: Sigma-Plot 3.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $395
Company name: Jandel Scientific
Synopsis: A menu-driven program designed to produce presentation
quality plots of scientific data featuring error bars, log and
linear scales/ regression lines, and unlimited dataset size!
Files can be exported to Pagemaker, Ventura and WordPerfect 5.0.
Requires HP or compatible plotter. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: Sigstat
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Significant Statistics
Synopsis: An advanced statistical analysis package with many
functions, but a poor user interface. The package consists of a
manual and 28 disks of compiled FORTRAN program files. Users
must choose the program they want and execute it from DOS. Not
copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: SmartForecasts II 2.15
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $695
Company name: Smart Software Inc.
Synopsis: "Recommended for the novice or intermediate business
user who does not want to learn the jargon of advanced
statistics." Features an automatic command that chooses the most
accurate of five forecasting techniques according to the user's
data. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Soritec 6.3
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Sorites Group, Inc.
Synopsis: An econometric modeling and forecasting package that
includes single and multiple equation linear and non-linear
estimation and simulation techniques. Available for 25 different
operating environments. Requires 441K RAM and hard disk. Not
copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: SPSS-PC+
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $795
Company name: SPSS Inc.
Synopsis: A full-featured statistical analysis package with an
interactive system of menus and help screens, and interactive
executions. Requires 12MB to load all options. Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: Stat 1 3.05
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $129.95
Company name: Sugar Mill Software Corp.
Synopsis: Designed for low-level statisticians with modest
needs, this package imports and imports ASCII files only. It
includes a DOS editor so users can temporarily exit to DOS to
work with files or use another program. Limited by its inability
to handle nonnumeric data. Menu-driven. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Stata 2.05
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Computing Resource Center
Synopsis: An advanced statistical analysis package operated by
menus or through command files. Procedures include ANOVA, chi-
square, cumulative functions, cross-tabulation, nonparametric
tests, regressions, and more. Graphics include box and whisker
plots, pie charts, and probability plots. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Statgraphics 3.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $895
Company name: STSC Inc.
Synopsis: Combines broad statistical capabilities with easy-to-
use menus, impressive color graphics, and quick interactive data
analysis. Has Pareto analysis, file import/export, network and
CGM format support, and expanded memory use. Doesn't have a
multivariate general linear model routine, multiple fonts, data
highlighting, or brushing, but is nevertheless "best statistical
package available for quality-control analysis." Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: Infoworld, 7/31/89; PC
Magazine 3/14/B9.
Product: Statistical Navigator 1.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $100
Company name: The Idea Works, Inc.
Synopsis: An expert system that recommends the appropriate
statistical procedures for a given situation. The user's
response to a series of questions is used to suggest several
appropriate analyses. Over 100 analyses are included. Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: Statistix 2.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $169
Company name: NH Analytical Software
Synopsis: A low-end, menu-driven statistical analysis package
featuring probability functions, summary statistics, goodness of
fit association tests, randomness tests, linear models, time
series, and one, two, and multisample tests. Written in Pascal.
Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Statpac Gold 3.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Walonick Associates Inc.
Synopsis: An integrated statistical software package including a
database manager, basic and advanced statistics, tables, windows,
graphics, and utilities. Features include ANOVA, correlation and
reliability, linear and non-linear regression, t-tests, and
multiple regression. Written in compiled Basic. Copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: St.at-Packets
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $25 per module, $90 in prepackaged bundles
Company name: Walonick Associates, Inc.
Synopsis: A series of 23 different analysis programs to be used
with Lotus spreadsheets. Prepackaged bundles are organized for
particular specialties, including: Marketing Research; Health-
Medical; Science-Engineering. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Statplan III 1.40
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $179
Company name: The Futures Group
Synopsis: A very limited menu-driven statistical analysis
program. Supports only Epson-compatible dot-matrix printers, and
does not provide data recording or logic-based data
transformation. Strongest in the area of time-series analysis
and multiple regression. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: Statpro 2.0
Platform*: IBM PC
Prica: $895
Company name: Penton Software Inc.
Synopsis: A menu-driven database, statistical analysis, and
graphics program. Capabilities include Pearsons correlations,
Spearman rank order, ANOVA, linear and stepwise regression, and
more. Requires 256K RAM and graphics card. Copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Statview II
Platforms: Macintosh
Price: $495
Company name: Abacus Concepts Inc.
Synopsis: With the ability to tell the difference between data
labels and actual data, this statistical analysis package can
read any file that has been saved as text from either a
spreadsheet or a database. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: Macworld, April 1988
Product: Statview 512+ 1.2
Platforms: Macintosh
Price: $350
Company name: Brainpower, Inc.
Synopsis: An advanced statistical analysis program made
specifically for the Macintosh interface that imports from other
applications. Procedures include descriptive, inferential,
regression, variance, non-parametric, factor analysis, and more.
Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: MacUser, December 1986
Product: Surfer 4.0
Platform: IBM PC
Price: $499
Company name: Golden Software, Inc.
Synopsis: A three-dimensional surface-plotting program.
Converts irregular collections of x,y,z triplets into a regular
mesh of x,y,z values, creates contour plots from grided data, and
produces 3-D wire depictions of the grided data.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: Systat 4.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495-$795
Company name: Systat Inc.
Synopsis: A high-end package featuring a Basic-like language
that can be used to automate frequently-done analyses. Uses hot
and cold commands and has a pop-up editor and a separate
spreadsheet editor. "A well-rounded package with a complete
array of statistical functions. Good user interface, excellent
documentation, and beautiful graphics." Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: Infoworld, 9/19/88; PC
Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Tekcalc 2.0
Platform: IBM PC
Price: $95
Company name: BV Engineering Professional Software
Synopsis: A mathematical and statistical package with limited
functions. Includes three modules: calculator, graphing, and
statistical of which the statistical is the best. Applications
include standard deviation, mean, linear regression, and 11 types
of curve fits. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Turbo Spring-Stat 2.9
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $469.95
Company name: Spring Systems
Synopsis: A powerful statistical analysis program with a data-
management facility, an editor, and an expert system to help the
user decide which statistical procedure to use. Output is
limited to ASCII graphics (two- and three-dimensional maps,
scatterplots, frequency plots, box plots, and stem-and-leaf
diagrams). Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Wisard Professional Forecaster 3.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $249
Company name: Wisard Software Co.
Synopsis: This program contains algorithms for producing
forecasts of time-series data making historical records useful
for future projections. It may be used by itself or with
spreadsheet applications. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: Infoworld, 8/19/87
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Product: What's Best 1.2
Platforms: IBM PC
Prica: $149-$995
Company name: General Optimization, Inc.
Synopsis: A linear program, memory-resident utility for 1-2-3
and Symphony users geared toward statistical and database
analyses, calculating distributions, and probabilities. Copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC World, November 1986
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Software for the IBM PC
Product: Abstat 5.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $395
Company name: Anderson-Bell Corporation
Synopsis: A low-end package offering basic functions such as
cross-tabulations, correlations, linear regressions. Can share
with dBase, 1-2-3, and Symphony, and with roost other software
through ASCII. "Designed for the nonspecialist." Written in
Turbo Pascal.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Asyst 3.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $1695-$2295, depending on options purchased
Company name: Asyst Software Technologies
Synopsis: Requires 64OK RAM, math coprocessor, parallel port,
graphic cards, and DOS 2.0 or later. Has a Forth-like
programming language, reverse Polish notation syntax. Advanced
graphics capabilities. Copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89.
Product: Autobox Plus 2.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $995-$1195
Company name: Automatic Forecasting Systems, Inc.
Synopsis: A time-series analysis package capable of user-defined
and automatic ARIMA forecasting methods. Includes Box-Jenkins
methodology, intervention detection, and transfer-function
capabilities. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Autocast II 1.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495
Company name: Levenbach Associates
Synopsis: A forecasting package that analyzes future trends and
seasonal cycles. Menu-driven with a spreadsheet-style editor for
entering data. Includes automatic model selection, trend curve,
and seasonal decomposition. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: BMDP-PC
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $395
Company name: BMDP Statistical Software
Synopsis: A high-end statistical analysis package with data
management capability, a full-screen editor, and high resolution
graphics. Includes most basic and advanced statistical features,
including logistic regression, repeated measures analysis,
survival analysis, Box-Jenkins time series, Mann-Whitney rank sum
test, and others. "Aimed at professional data analysts and
statisticians." Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Crunch Statistical Package 3.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495
Company name: Crunch Software Corporation
Synopsis: A low-end package composed of several programs written
in compiled BASIC tied together by a central control program.
Features extensive data management and transformation utilities.
Able to import data from ASCII, dBase, and .DIF files.
"Appealing package for the social and biological sciences." Copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: CSS 2.1 (Complete Statistical System)
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495
Company name: Statsoft Inc.
Synopsis: An advanced menu-driven statistical analysis package
requiring 8MB of disk space. It can import and export ASCII,
Lotus 1-2-3, and dBase files, and comes with FORTRAN, C, Pascal,
and BASIC source code to read and write CSS data files. Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Decision Graphics 3.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $450
Company name: Samna Corp.
Synopsis: A macro-driven business package with statistical and
database functions. Includes standard graphing features and a
variety of analytical functions such as growth rate, moving
average, linear regression, and logarithms. Output designed for
plotters. Written in compiled BASIC. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 9/27/88, 3/14/89
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Product: Exec*U*Stat 1.4
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $295
Company name: Strategy Plus Inc.
Synopsis: "An introductory statistics and graphics package for
the non-statistician." Strong on descriptive methods, estimation
and testing, regression, forecasting, and analysis of variance.
Performs good basic plotting and allows user to manipulate and
annotate graphs. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Fastat
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $195
Company name: Systat Inc.
Synopsis: An easy-to-use package with a good selection of
statistics and graphics features targeted at the education
market. Of limited use to the professional statistician but
useful to students because of its good user interface.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3//14/89
Product: Forecast Plus 2.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Walonick Associates Inc.
Synopsis: Designed for users familiar with forecasting. Written
in BASIC. Uses a menu structure where users supply numeric
choices to select the action to be carried out. Setting the
choices and generating plots requires some technical expertise.
Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Forecast Pro 1.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495
Company name: Business Forecast Systems, Inc.
Synopsis: A business forecasting package with a rule-based
expert system that guides users through every step of the
forecasting process. Includes three statistical methods: the
Holt-Winter's family of exponential smoothing, Box-Jenkins, and
dynamic regression. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: GB-Stat 1.5
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $300
Company name: New England Software
Synopsis: A menu-driven statistical analysis package with 300
procedures for data management and statistical analyses,
including parametric and nonparametric procedures/ reliability
statistics, and multivariate and univariate analyses. Compatible
with Ventura Publisher and PageMaker. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: Infoworld, 4/24/89
Product: Grapher 1.76
.Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $199
Company name: Golden Software, Inc.
Synopsis: A menu-driven program allowing user to represent
10,000 XY data pairs with ten different scales on one graph.
Provides six methods of fitting functions to data: linear,
spline, power, exponential, polynomial and logarithmic. Does not
produce bar graphs. Written in C. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Graftool 1.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495
Company name: 3-D Visions
Synopsis: A menu-driven scientific and engineering 3-D graphics
program providing an integrated scientific spreadsheet for
generating data. It has the ability to mix plots in various
coordinate systems and manipulate each of the plots
independently. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Graph-in-the-box 1.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $200
Company name: New England Software, Inc.
Synopsis: A two-dimensional graphics package that can be run as
a TSR or as a nonresident program. It can perform simple data
manipulations and calculations. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Javelin Plus
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $250
Company name: Javelin Software Corp.
Synopsis: A unique business modeling and analysis spreadsheet
program which builds models of variable names instead of rows and
columns. Text and numbers can 'be imported and exported, but
formulas cannot. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 10/27/87
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Product: Knowledgeman2 2.5
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $695, single user; $1995/ multiuser Company name: mdbs
Inc.
Synopsis: "A tool for a comprehensive and totally integrated
decision support system." Capabilities include data management,
ad hoc inquiries, spreadsheet analysis, statistical analysis,
screen management, report forms management and structured
programming. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 11/15/88
Product: Medlog
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $6500
Company name: Information Analysis Corporation
Synopsis: A menu-driven database and statistical analysis
package designed for time-oriented medical research handling over
65,000 patients per database with 1,000 variables. Includes
basic and advanced statistics from t-tests to nonparametric
statistics.
Sources of additional information: MD Computing, Jan./Feb. 1989
Product: Microstat II 1.5
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $395
Company name: Ecosoft, Inc.
Synopsis: A menu-driven package that presents a spreadsheet for
entering data. Techniques include descriptive statistics, core
tabulations, and frequency distributions. "Speedy, but lacking
in statistical procedures documentation and limited in graphics."
Written in C. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: Infoworld, 1/30/89; PC
Magazine 3/14/89
Product: Minitab Statistical Software 6.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $695
Company name: Minitab, Inc.
Synopsis: A low-end, command-driven general-purpose package that
includes descriptive statistics, flexible plotting, analysis of
variance, and the Box-Jenkins procedure for exploratory data
analysis. Includes macro capability. Written in Fortran. Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: MTS 2.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $995
Company name: Automatic Forecasting Systems Inc.
Synopsis: Provides very fast and accurate forecasts in
identifying, estimating, and forecasting univariate and
multivariate time series. Limited facilities for time series
analysis, but its automatic mode produces models and forecasts
from raw data with no input from the user. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: NCSS 5.01 (Number Cruncher Statistical System)
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $99
Company name: NCSS Inc.
Synopsis: An easy-to-learn but inflexible package with numerous
statistical procedures, superb graphics, good documentation and
technical support. Only in the area of data transformation can
the user do something that the vendor has not already
anticipated. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: NWA Statpak 4.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495; $950, network version
Company name: Northwest Analytical, Inc.
Synopsis: A low-end, multi-function statistics library. Uses
ASCII text files for data and report interface to other software.
Functions include probability, descriptive statistics,
crosstabulation, and more. Written in compiled BASIC. Requires
512K RAM and graphics card.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine 3/14/89
Product: Ot i s 1.2
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $995
Company name: Odin Research
Synopsis: An econometric modeling statistical analysis package
allowing users to perform analyses and incorporate database
features for maintaining time-series data. Easy to learn and use
but lacks advanced built-in statistical functions. Designed
mainly for numerical manipulation. Copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: PC Anova 1.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $200
Company name: Human Systems Dynamics
Synopsis: A low-end, general purpose package that performs
analyses of covariance and Latin square analyses as well as
Newman-Keuls and Duncan's Multiple Range tests. Written in
compiled BASIC . Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: PC-GSA+ III.32
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Scientific Computing Associates
Synopsis: A general statistical analysis package that can be
used as a standalone or in conjunction with other SCA products.
A command driven program that is particularly powerful in time-
series analysis.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine/ 3/14/89
Product: PC Statistician 1.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $300
Company name: Human Systems Dynamics
Synopsis: A low-end general purpose statistical package with 1-
to 5-way cross-tabulation capability/ t-tests/ anova, regression,
parametric and nonparametric tests, and five measures of
correlation. Written in compiled BASIC. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Powerstation 1.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $895-$2300
Company name: Alphametrics Corporation
Synopsis: An integrated econometric modeling package featuring
data plotting, forecasting, descriptive and comparative
statistics, and time-series regression. Provides a large
selection of data management functions and has the ability to
link with spreadsheet and other common programs. Copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Predict 1.3
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $795
Company name: Unison Technology, Inc.
Synopsis: A knowledge of statistics, probability, and sample
statistics is required to use this simulation program in which
situations can be analyzed where some values are uncertain.
Written in Microsoft C. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC World, October 1987
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Product: Pro*Cast 2.2
Platforms: IBM PC
ffric*: $295
Company name: Fleming Software
Synopsis: An easy to use forecasting statistical analysis package
with pop-down menus and well-designed graphic screens. Does not
include enough tools for data exploration, and graphics
capabilities are limited. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC World, 3/14/89
Product: Prodas 3.2
Platforms: IBM PC
Prico: $365-$720
Company namo: Conceptual Software Inc.
Synopsis: A program-driven statistical database management
system with a programming vocabulary and a range of graph types.
Contains a menu command and macro facility to build a customized
interface for the system or the user's own applications. Not
copy protected.
Sourcos of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Research 1.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $695
Company name: Economic Software, Inc.
Synopsis: An easily accessible main menu provides graphics,
statistics, database management, and file transfer capabilities.
Helpful in managing, graphing, and analyzing data used in
investment and economic analyses plus business forecasting.
Sourcos of additional information: PC Week, 3/26/85
Product: SAS
Platforms: IBM PC
Prico: $495
Company name: SAS Institute
Synopsis: A modular system of statistical analysis software
offering both interactive and batch processing through a menu
system or an expert command language. Includes descriptive
statistics, rank and standard scoring, report generations, and a
set of utilities.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: SDS 2.12
Platforms: IBM PC
Prico: $995
Company name: Design Professionals Management Systems
Synopsis: A scientific graphing program that plots a contour map
or a three-dimensional, wire-mesh depiction of the z values using
the Kriging algorithm. A command-driven program, with user typing
variables on the command line followed by their values. Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: Sigma-Plot 3.1
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $395
Company name: Jandel Scientific
Synopsis: A menu-driven program designed to produce presentation
quality plots of scientific data featuring error bars, log and
linear scales, regression lines, and unlimited dataset size.
Files can be exported to Pagemaker, Ventura and WordPerfect 5.0.
Requires HP or compatible plotter. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Sigstat
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Significant Statistics
Synopsis: An advanced statistical analysis package with many
functions, but a poor user interface. The package consists of a
manual and 28 disks of compiled FORTRAN program files. Users
must choose the program they want and execute it from DOS. Not
copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: SmartForecasts II 2.15
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $695
Company name: Smart Software Inc.
Synopsis: "Recommended for the novice or intermediate business
user who does not want to learn the jargon of advanced
statistics." Features an automatic command that chooses the most
accurate of five forecasting techniques according to the user's
data. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Soritec 6.3
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Sorites Group, Inc.
Synopsis: An econometric modeling and forecasting package that
includes single and multiple equation linear and non-linear
estimation and simulation techniques. Available for 25 different
operating environments. Requires 441K RAM and hard disk. Not
copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: SPSS-PC*
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $795
Company name: SPSS Inc.
Kynopsis: A full-featured statistical analysis package with an
interactive system of menus and help screens, and interactive
executions. Requires 12MB to load all options. Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Stat 1 3.05
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $129.95
Company name: Sugar Mill Software Corp.
Synopsis: Designed for low-level statisticians with modest
needs, this package imports and imports ASCII files only. It
includes a DOS editor so users can temporarily exit to DOS to
work with files or use another program. Limited by its inability
to handle nonnumeric data. Menu-driven. Not copy protected.
liources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Stata 2.05
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Computing Resource Center
Synopsis: An advanced statistical analysis package operated by
menus or through command files. Procedures include ANOVA, chi-
.square, cumulative functions, cross-tabulation, nonparametric
tests, regressions, and more. Graphics include box and whisker
plots, pie charts, and probability plots. Not copy protected.
.Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Statgraphics 3.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $895
Company name: STSC Inc.
Synopsis: Combines broad statistical capabilities with easy-to-
use menus, impressive color graphics, and quick interactive data
analysis. Has Pareto analysis, file import/export, network and
CGM format support, and expanded memory use. Doesn't have a
multivariate general linear model routine, multiple fonts, data
highlighting, or brushing, but is nevertheless "best statistical
package available for quality-control analysis." Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: Infoworld, 7/31/89; PC
Magazine 3/14/89.
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Product: Statistical Navigator 1.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $100
Company name: The Idea Works, Inc.
Synopsis: An expert system that recommends the appropriate
statistical procedures for a given situation. The user's
response to a series of questions is used to suggest several
appropriate analyses. Over 100 analyses are included. Not copy
protected.
Sourc«s of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Statistix 2.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $169
Company name: NH Analytical Software
Synopsis: A low-end, menu-driven statistical analysis package
featuring probability functions, summary statistics, goodness of
fit association tests, randomness tests, linear models, time
series, and one, two, and multisample tests. Written in Pascal.
Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Statpac Gold 3.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $595
Company name: Walonick Associates Inc.
Synopsis: An integrated statistical software package including a
database manager, basic and advanced statistics, tables, windows,
graphics, and utilities. Features include ANOVA, correlation and
reliability, linear and non-linear regression, t-tests, and
multiple regression. Written in compiled Basic. Copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Stat-Packets
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $25 per module, $90 in prepackaged bundles
Company name: Walonick Associates, Inc.
Synopsis: A series of 23 different analysis programs to be used
with Lotus spreadsheets. Prepackaged bundles are organized for
particular specialties, including: Marketing Research; Health-
Medical; Science-Engineering. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: Statplan III 1.40
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $179
Company name: The Futures Group
Synopsis: A very limited menu-driven statistical analysis
program. Supports only Epson-compatible dot-matrix printers, and
does not provide data recording or logic-based data
transformation. Strongest in the area of time-series analysis
and multiple regression. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Statpro 2.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $895
Company name: Penton Software Inc.
Synopsis: A menu-driven database, statistical analysis, and
graphics program. Capabilities include Pearsons correlations,
Spearman rank order, ANOVA, linear and stepwise regression, and
more. Requires 256K RAM and graphics card. Copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Surfer 4.0
Platform: IBM PC
Price: $499
Company name: Golden Software, Inc.
Synopsis: A three-dimensional surface-plotting program.
Converts irregular collections of x,y,z triplets into a regular
mesh of x,y,z values, creates contour plots from grided data, and
produces 3-D wire depictions of the grided data.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Systat 4.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $495-$795
Company name: Systat Inc.
Synopsis: A high-end package featuring a Basic-like language
that can be used to automate frequently-done analyses. Uses hot
and cold commands and has a pop-up editor and & separate
spreadsheet editor. "A well-rounded package with a complete
array of statistical functions. Good user interface, excellent
documentation, and beautiful graphics." Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: Infoworld, 9/19/88; PC
Magazine, 3/14/89
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Product: Tekcalc 2.0
Platform: IBM PC
Price: $95
Company name: BV Engineering Professional Software
Synopsis: A mathematical and statistical package with limited
functions. Includes three modules: calculator, graphing, and
statistical of which the statistical is the best. Applications
include standard deviation, mean, linear regression, and 11 types
of curve fits. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/69
Product: Turbo Spring-Stat 2.9
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $469.95
Company name: Spring Systems
Synopsis: A powerful statistical analysis program with a data-
management facility, an editor, and an expert system to help the
user decide which statistical procedure to use. Output is
limited to ASCII graphics (two- and three-dimensional maps,
scatterplots, frequency plots, box plots, and stem-and-leaf
diagrams). Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: PC Magazine, 3/14/89
Product: Wi.sard Professional Forecaster 3.0
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $249
Company name: Wisard Software Co.
Synopsis: This program contains algorithms for producing
forecasts of time-series data making historical records useful
for future projections. It may be used by itself or with
spreadsheet applications. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: Infoworld, 8/19/8*7
Product: What's Best 1.2
Platforms: IBM PC
Price: $149-$995
Company name: General Optimization, Inc.
Synopsis: A linear program, memory-resident utility for 1-2-3
and Symphony users geared toward statistical and database
analyses, calculating distributions, and probabilities. Copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: PC World, November 1986
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Software for the Macintosh
Product: Labview 2.0
Platforms: Macintosh 4.1 or later
Price: $1995
Company name: National Instruments
Synopsis: A data acquisition and analysis package using the G
graphics language which allows programming by a block diagram
approach. Applications can be designed for automatic data
collection and management, signal and transient analysis, and
process control. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: MacUser, July 1989
Product: Mathview Professional
Platforms: Macintosh 4.1 or later
Price: $250
Synopsis: An engineering and computational program combining two
and three dimensional plotting with routines for matrices,
differential equations, and integrals. Includes clipboard for
transferring data. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: MacUser, September 1988
Product: Parameter Manager Plus 3.02
Platforms: Macintosh 4.1 or later
Price: $595
Company name: GenRad Inc.
Synopsis: A desktop technical analyzer and graphing application
that stores data in chronological order based on time or
sequence. Capable of handling large data sets with resolution
plotting of up to 32,000 data points per variable. Not copy
protected.
Sources of additional information: MacUser July 1989
Product: Statview II
Platforms: Macintosh
Price: $495
Company Łame: Abacus Concepts Inc.
Synopsis: With the ability to tell the difference between data
labels and actual data, this statistical analysis package can
read any file that has been saved as text from either a
spreadsheet or a database. Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: Macworld, April 1988
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Product: Statview 512+ 1.2
Platforms: Mac int osh
Price: $350
Company name: Brainpower, Inc.
Synopsis: An advanced statistical analysis program made
specifically for the Macintosh interface that imports from other
applications. Procedures include descriptive, inferential,
regression, variance, non-parametric, factor analysis, and more.
Not copy protected.
Sources of additional information: MacUser, December 1986
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