Statistics in a Nutshell |
| | John A. Wass, Ph.D. A really nifty practical guide
The title here should include “on a Number of Levels,” as this simple text has so much to recommend it. No, it is not watered-down statistics! It is a practical guide to quickly getting the reader up to speed on those items most used in describing data, performing hypothesis testing and conveying some of the more fascinating aspects of statistics in research ...continue |
Visual Statistics |
| | John A. Wass A review of JMP 5 JMP is statistical software for exploratory data analysis, general and sophisticated statistical testing, and experimental design. Its richly visual graphic environment makes it an excellent tool for students, statisticians, scientists, and engineers. ...continue |
Statistics 2006 Products of the Year Winner: JMP |
| | JMP statistics software combines interactive data mining, DOE, and statistical QC to interactively understand and visualize data. ...continue |
Statistics 2005 Products of the Year Winner: JMP |
| | JMP statistics software combines interactive data mining, design of experiments, and statistical quality control to interactively understand and visualize data. ...continue |
The R Language: Fun with statistics and programming |
| | Fun with statistics and programming John A. Wass, Ph.D.
As a statistician, your contributing editor can personally vouch for the joys of data analysis, but it takes a lot to make him say that programming can ever be construed as anything other than sheer agony. Here is a small exception. ...continue |
SYSTAT 11: More Statistics, More Graphs, Less Effort |
| | Integrated desktop statistics and graphics package features many improvements
John A. Wass, Ph.D.
>SYSTAT is an old friend that keeps improving with age. It is statistical software that does a variety of sophisticated testing beyond what the non-statistician would ...continue |
GenStat for Windows 8th Edition General Statistics Package |
| | A stand-alone package useful to the scientist, engineer and student John A. Wass, Ph.D.
As with most things, the more familiar are what we usually feel comfortable dealing with on a daily basis. In this case, although there are probably thousands of software packages pertinent to data analysis worldwide, we tend to concentrate on the ones from the U.S. It is therefore a nice change to see what else is out there and review a package from our colleagues in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. GenStat is made to summarize, display and analyze data ...continue |
Mathematica Navigator: Mathematics, Statistics, and Graphics |
| | We have come a long way from the old IBM manuals John A. Wass, Ph.D.
The Navigator is one of the more recent additions to the line of books that, by explanation and example, facilitate the use of one of the most popular symbolic/numeric mathematical programs. Mathematica has been reviewed many times in this and other publications and is frequently used software for advanced mathematics ...continue |
SigmaStat 3.1 Advisory Statistics for Scientists |
| | The general statistical software is superb for the novice statistician with modest needs and purse John A. Wass, Ph.D.
SigmaStat is an old friend that I originally used over 10 years ago when I was first learning about statistical software. At that time, SigmaStat was making the transition from DOS to Windows-based ...continue |
Statistics 2006 Products of the Year Winner: SYSTAT |
| | SYSTAT is an integrated desktop software package that provides researchers with statistical, analytical and graphical capabilities, which help translate raw data into meaningful results. ...continue |
Statistics 2006 Products of the Year Winner: STATISTICA |
| | STATISTICA analytics software features data analysis, management, visualization and mining procedures. It includes predictive modeling, clustering, classification and exploratory techniques. ...continue |
Statistics 2006 Products of the Year Winner: Statgraphics Centurion |
| | Statgraphics Centurion is statistical software for exploratory data analysis, modeling, DOE, time series forecasting, quality improvement and Six Sigma. ...continue |
Statistics 2006 Products of the Year Winner: Partek Screener's Solution |
| | Partek Screener’s Solution, a statistical analysis and interactive data visualization system, is suited for analysis of experiments and studies resulting from high-throughput and high-content technologies. ...continue |
Statistics 2005 Products of the Year Winner: SYSTAT |
| | SYSTAT is an integrated desktop software package that provides researchers with statistical, analytical and graphical capabilities, which help translate raw data into meaningful results. ...continue |
Statistics 2005 Products of the Year Winner: STATISTICA |
| | STATISTICA provides an array of data analysis, data management, data visualization and data mining procedures. Its techniques include predictive modeling, clustering, classification and exploratory techniques in one software platform. ...continue |
Statistics 2005 Products of the Year Winner: Bioinformatics Toolbox |
| | The Bioinformatics Toolbox for MATLAB performs mass spectrometry data analysis and statistical inference and prediction. ...continue |
GenStat |
| | GenStat is a comprehensive statistics system that offers ease-of-use for the novice user through a Windows menu interface or flexibility for the more experienced user through a command language interface. It offers a range of statistics techniques that have been tested by practicing statisticians. ...continue |
Using Statistics to Decipher Secrets of Natural Mutation |
| | A new mathematical approach for analyzing the complex, subtle patterns of natural mutation in DNA is likely to help biologists understand how mutation contributes to evolutionary change in mammals.The researchers, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Philip Green and his student Dick Hwang, published a report describing the first applications of ...continue |
Using Statistics to Improve the Quality of Genomic and Proteomic Data |
| | Simple method reduces noise in measurement platforms Tom Downey
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies today are investing billions of dollars collecting, storing, and analyzing data from new genomic and proteomic technologies. It is expected that analysis of this data will result in the discovery of new biomarkers and improve the ...continue |
Statistics 2003 Top Products Award Winner: STATGRAPHICS Plus |
| | STATGRAPHICS Plus is a PC-based statistical analysis package. Fully web-enabled, it includes operations that allow users to publish results to a Web server using StatPublish, as well as to read and write XML data and connect to industry standard databases such as Oracle and SQL Server. ...continue |
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