Professional Development Workshop
This session (#119) was held on Sunday, August 6 at the Academy of Management meeting in Toronto. The session was led by
It was sponsored by the Research Methods and Management Education & Development divisions of the Academy of Management.
New information since the presentation:
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
Below are the links for the packages discussed in the seminar.
Featured products:
Other products:
Commercial packages with free downloadable versions that allow you to save and use your own data:
Featured packages:
Other packages:
See the complete list of freeware packages for the Mac. (If there is a similar list for Windows, please let us know).
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:
We would welcome suggestions on other sources.
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:
The following packages have Internet news groups:
The following packages have mailing lists, so see the appropriate web pages about how to join:
During the discussion, people asked about SEM packages, which was not on the formal agenda. Joel mentioned
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).
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.
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Stata |
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Statistica |
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WINKS |
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R |
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Vista |
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SEM Packages |
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Amos |
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EQS |
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LISREL |
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LV-PLS |
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* due later in 2000
§ discontinued, but still available