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

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

New information since the presentation:

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:

Other products:

Commercial Software With Free Demos

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

Freeware Packages

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).

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:

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:

News Groups

The following packages have Internet news groups:

E-mail Lists

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

Structural Equation Modeling

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).

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

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>.