Commercial software |
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Matlab (probably the most-used data analysis software in the world, all platforms) |
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Mathematica (the most powerful symbolic calculation software, all platforms) |
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SAS (probably the most-used statistical package in the industry) |
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S-PLUS (one of the best statistical language for Windows and Unix/Linux) |
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Statistica (a complete and intuitive statistical software for Windows & Macintosh) |
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SPSS / Systat (other well-known statistical software for Windows) |
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O-Matrix (a very fast Matlab-compatible shareware for Windows) |
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Ox (a very fast matrix language for Unix/Linux & Windows, free for academic) |
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Idrisi (a good and inexpensive GIS package) |
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Free software |
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R (a fast and powerful free clone of Splus for Windows, MacOS, Unix & Linux) |
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Octave (a free clone of Matlab 4 for Unix/Linux and Windows) |
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Scilab (a free package similar to Matlab / Simulink) |
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Gnuplot (a free scientific graphing package) |
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XGobi (a software for plotting and analyzing multivariate data) |
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Grass (a free GIS package) |
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ADE-4 (a data analysis software for ecology) |
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Utilities and Miscellaneous |
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Textpad (a powerful text editor with syntax highlighting features for many languages) |
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VNC (Virtual Network Computing: control other computers through the network) |
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Second copy (backup your data automatically) |
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Winzip (manage zip compressed files as well as other compression formats) |
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Endnote (manage your references and format your publications automatically) |
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Reference Manager (idem) |
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GNU (free GNU software) |
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KDE (a free X desktop and software for Linux that concurrences Windows) |
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Mozilla Firefox (probably the best web browser) |
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OpenOffice (an excellent and free alternative to Microsoft Office) |
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ImageJ (a free image analysis software) |
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Quantian (a full system with tons of scientific software on a bootable DVD, based on Debian Linux) |
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Sites dedicated to data analysis |
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Statlib (various resources, mainly for Splus) |
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NAG (the Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd) |
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Sourceforge.net (a repository for many free open source programs) |
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Mathtools.net (idem) |
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Octave repository (libraries and functions for Octave and Matlab) |
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Scientific Web (comparison of various data analysis software) |
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Online resources on statistics and data analysis |
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Journal of statistical software |
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R News (a journal presenting the development of R) |
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SimpleR (an introduction to R for beginners) |
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Practical regression and ANOVA in R (a very clear introduction to linear models) |
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Using GRASS and R together (a paper explaining how to link GRASS and R) |
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Experimental design (an introductory lesson) |
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Statistic electronic textbook (online version of the Statistica user manual) |
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S.O.S. Mathematics (an online textbook on differential calculus) |
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Famous curves index (a catalog of mathematical curves) |
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Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics (learn the stats interactively with these nice little Java apps) |
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