Last Updated November 15, 2000

Academy of Management
Toronto 2000

Professional Development Workshop

“Statistical Software and Freeware
for Data Analysis in Management”

This session (#119) was held on Sunday, August 6 at the Academy of Management meeting in Toronto. The session was led by

• Matthew Liao-Troth, Washington University <liao-troth@olin.wustl.edu>
• Joel West, U.C. Irvine <joelwest@uci.edu>

It was sponsored by the Research Methods and Management Education & Development divisions of the Academy of Management.

New information since the presentation:

• Information on structural equation modeling have been added to the slides and this web page.
• Lists of books on the packages
• Information on news groups and E-mail lists
• Full web page on R

Presentation Slides

The slides from the presentation are available to download in Adobe Acrobat format. They have been updated to include the SEM material that was not included on August 6.

Please do not redistribute the slides. Instead, we would appreciate it if you would link to (or e-mail) the URL of this page:

http://pobox.com/~joelwest/Statistics/Toronto2000.html

Web Pages for Software Packages

Below are the links for the packages discussed in the seminar.

Commercial Packages

Featured products:

• JMP 4.0; for information, e-mail jmpweb@sas.com
  • Academic version
  • JMP IN (aka JMP Start) student version from Duxbury Press
  • Comparison of JMP and JMP IN features
• SPSS 10; for information, e-mail sales@spss.com
  • Education pricing
  • List of textbooks that bundle SPSS 9 for Windows
  • Student version at the Prentice-Hall web site
  • SPSS Graduate Pack
• Stata 6; for information, e-mail stata@stata.com
  • University pricing
  • StataQuest 4 student version from Duxbury Press
  • Comparison of Small Stata and Intercooled Stata and online list of limits

Other products:

• MiniTab Release 13 (see also academic pricing)
• SAS version 8.1
• Statistica 5.5 (see also academic site licensing)

Commercial Software With Free Demos

Commercial packages with free downloadable versions that allow you to save and use your own data:

• AMOS 4.0: free student edition of structural equation package (limit is 8 variables, 54 parameters)
• WINKS (Windows KwikStat) 4.62: free lite version, limited to 100 cases

Freeware Packages

Featured packages:

• R (at the Comprehensive R Archive Network): an open source version of S/S-Plus
• ViSta (University of North Carolina): a graphical Lisp-Stat front-end

Other packages:

• ADE-4 (University of Lyon)
• Lisp-Stat (University of Minnesota): a general purpose LISP-based statistics system
• Mx (VCU): matrix math/structural equation package
• MacAnova (University of Minnesota): a command-oriented regression package for Windows and Mac

See the complete list of freeware packages for the Mac. (If there is a similar list for Windows, please let us know).

Excel Macros

Statistics with Excel are usually done using the “Data Analysis Tookpak,” which includes ANOVA, regression and confidence intervals.

Here is one site with additional free Excel templates for statistics:

• inerStat-a: ANOVA tests, including Tukey and Dunnett tests

We would welcome suggestions on other sources.

Sources of Additional Information

Books

As noted in the slides, the following book covers Lisp-Stat, SAS, Stata, S-Plus (and thus R), and ViSta:

Robert Stine & John Fox, eds., Statistical Computing Environments for Social Research, Sage, 1996.

There are of course many, many books on doing research with SAS and SPSS, and, as discussed during the session, student-oriented texts for JMP, SAS, SPSS and Stata.

See my R web page for the list of R and S-related books.

See also Amazon’s online catalog for a list of books related to:

• JMP
• S and S-Plus
• SAS
• SPSS
• Stata
• Other books on
  • statistical analysis software
  • statistical analysis for social science research

News Groups

The following packages have Internet news groups:

• SAS: comp.soft-sys.sas
• SPSS: comp.soft-sys.stat.spss

E-mail Lists

The following packages have mailing lists, so see the appropriate web pages about how to join:

• R
• Stata

Structural Equation Modeling

During the discussion, people asked about SEM packages, which was not on the formal agenda. Joel mentioned

• Amos
• EQS
• LISREL
• Various implementations of the PLS algorithm

All of them have free student or demo versions available.

For more information, see Joel’s complete list of SEM software packages (and related pages on structural equation modeling).

Configuration Information

Most attendees were using Windows 95 or 98, which are supported by all packages. For those who are using other operating systems, here’s a list of supported configurations.

	CPU:	Intel-based Systems				PowerPC		Other
	OS:	DOS	95/98	2000	Linux	MacOS	Linux	Unix	Mainframes
Regression Software (commercial)
	JMP		•	•		•
	Minitab		•	•		§
	SAS		•	•	*	§		•	•
	SPSS		•	•		*
	Stata		•	•	•	•	•	•
	Statistica		•	•		§
	WINKS		•	•
Regression Software (free)
	ADE-4		•	•		•
	Lisp-Stat		•	•		•		•
	R		•	•	•		•	•
	Vista		•	•	•	•		•
	WinAnova/MacAnova		•	•		•		•
SEM Packages
	Amos		•	•
	EQS		•	•		•			•
	LISREL		•	•		•		•	•
	LV-PLS	•

* due later in 2000
§ discontinued, but still available

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This page is one of several on statistics prepared by Joel West of the UCI Graduate School of Management. Please send any comments to <joelwest@uci.edu>.