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Excel

February 19, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Analysis & ModelingProductivity & Utility
Microsoft_Excel_2013_logo.svgAvailability: Windows Labs | Faculty/Staff | Download
Part of: Microsoft Office Suite
Comparable: OpenOffice, Google Sheets

 

Microsoft Excel is the spreadsheet application in the Microsoft Office Suite.  It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms.  Excel also facilitates basic statistical functions and data visualization.  Excel is available on the MacOS and Windows platforms.

Tags: spreadsheet

MPlus

November 24, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Analysis & Modeling

mplus

Availability: Labs  |  Download
Comparable: SPSS Amos
Training: Project Mosaic Workshops

Mplus is a latent variable modeling program with a wide variety of analysis capabilities:

  • Exploratory factor analysis
  • Structural equation modeling
  • Item response theory analysis
  • Growth modeling
  • Mixture modeling (latent class analysis)
  • Longitudinal mixture modeling (hidden Markov, latent transition analysis, latent class growth analysis, growth mixture analysis)
  • Survival analysis (continuous- and discrete-time)
  • Multilevel analysis
  • Complex survey data analysis
  • Bayesian analysis
  • Monte Carlo simulation

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Tags: statisticstrm

Stata

October 03, 2014 by Alex Chapin
Categories: Analysis & Modeling
Availability: Labs | Faculty/Staff | Download
Comparable: SPSS, SAS, MiniTab

Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package. Stata’s capabilities include data management, statistical analysis, graphics, simulations, regression analysis (linear and multiple), and custom programming.

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