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This page lists primarily statistical software, along with mapping,
spreadsheets, database, stuff to do data analysis or
management. All of the packages are free to use, that
is: there is no charge for individuals to use them. Many of the
websites say that individuals are free to download and use the
packages. In some cases, there may be charges to institutions. Some
of the packages are also open, that is, they are free to use and
the source code is freely available so anyone can make modifications
to the programs if they wish to. At the bottom of this page, I
list a few sites that have information about what "free" means.
Please note: I've only used a few of these software
programs a little bit, so I can't say much about how good they
are, whether they crash, have viruses, or much else about
them. If you use them, please let me know how well they
work. If there are any major problems, I'll take them off
this list. I'm sorry to add the usual disclaimer that, while
I don't expect any problems with them, if you use any of these, I
can't be responsible for any problems that may occur. Also, I'm
not necessarily recommending any, just providing info and links.
Statistics
There are many free statistical programs. See this
article http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Free_statistical_software/Citable_Version
at Citizendium about free statistical software.
Also see here http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/softsum.html
for a brief summary of some of the programs.
Several of these stat programs were
reviewed in an article in Opus 12, a journal covering Opus
12 Foundation research. Stawicki SPA. Guide to free statistical
software: General applications. OPUS 12 Scientist
2010;4(1):12-13. http://journal.opus12.org/o12-ojs/ojs-2.1.1/index.php/o12sci/issue/view/86
Reviewed OpenStat, Sofa, PSPP, MicrOsiris and a few others. Just
describes the programs.
Another review
looked at R and mentioned a few others (OpenStat and MicroOsiris).
"Free Statistics Software, Yours, Free to keep...."
Felix Grant, Scientific Computing World, Sept/Oct 2004,
http://www.scientific-computing.com/scwsepoct04free_statistics.html
This isn't a review of the packages, but a look at which ones
are popular http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/
The Popularity of Data Analysis Software, by Robert A. Muenchen
Also look at this, the most popular response, http://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_most_commonly_used_statistical_analysis_software_in_the_world
by Robert Thomas Brennan · Harvard University, explaining some of
the difficulties in answering which is the most popular. For
example, excel has a lot of statistical functions, but isn't thought
of as statistical software so may not be counted
I also compared 8 programs
(LazStat, easyreg, epidata, WinIDAMS, instat, MicrOsiris, Epi Info and PSPP), and
added excel and Gnumeric,
when
data sets have no missing values, shown here http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/comparing_freestaprograms.html
Basically, for correlation and simple regression, all gave the same
or similar results. Some also had the same results for forward
stepwise.
I also compared 6 programs (MicrOsiris Epi Info, WinIDAMS, Instat,
PSPP, JASP), when data sets do have missing values,
shown here
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/comparing_freestaprograms_missing.html
Basically,
for
correlation
and
simple
regression
all
gave
the
same
results.
These
are
also
the
only
programs
that
I
can
get
to
successfully
and
reliably
handle missing data with my data sets. WinIDAMS isn't so easy but
after a lot of tries and emails with UNESCO staff, I understood it
well enough to get it to work.
Other lists of free stat software
John C. Pezzullo's list of free statistical software
http://statpages.info/javasta2.html
The First and MAIN list of software. I got links to several of
the stat packages listed here from Mr. Pezzullo's site, which lists
more info about each package.
StatSci list of free software http://www.statsci.org/free.html
also lists some of the above.
List of free statistical software http://statistiksoftware.com/free_software.html
list of some programs with lots of notes about many of them, i.e.,
features, requirements.
Evaluation Portal http://www.evaluation.lars-balzer.name/links/tools-free-no-cost/statistical-software/
lists software and features of them.
Association for Survey Computing software index http://www.asc.org.uk/resources
Supposed to list some free stat software. They are updating
and the list is currently not available.
Betty Jung's page http://www.bettycjung.net/Statpgms.htm
Predictive Analytics, top 50 free stat software http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/top-free-statistical-software/
only some of them are statistical software. Include pspp, sas
university edition, R, a few others.
Free
Statistical Software
Epi Info
Epi Info is available
from http://wwwn.cdc.gov/epiinfo/
It is very large in size and will take considerable time to
download. This is a program for entering and analyzing data,
developed for epidemiologists, but can be used for basic
statistical analysis by anyone. This program is also not
easy to learn on your own, but see a couple of free on line
manuals:
Data Analysis With Epi Info. B. Burt Gerstman
(Nov. 2000) http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman/EpiInfo/
This is for the dos version.
This site also links to
Introduction to Epi Info and other resources http://www.epiinformatics.com/
The North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness Training
Website http://cphp.sph.unc.edu/training/index.php
has free on line training classes for epi info.
CDC tutorials http://wwwn.cdc.gov/epiinfo/html/tutorials.htm
CDC/Census Bureau software
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CSPro (Census and Survey Processing System)
http://www.census.gov/population/international/software/cspro/
a public-domain software package for entering, tabulating
and mapping census and survey data.
R,
R is a very widely used program, with tons of documentation
R: The Comprehensive R Archive Network http://cran.r-project.org/
"R,
also
known
as
"GNU
S",
is
a
language
and
environment
for
statistical
computing
and
graphics."
It
is,
I
understand,
like
S+,
a
statistical
language.
R
is
better for graphics than SAS. However, R is complex, and takes
a lot of study, so only use this if you have complex statistical or
graphical needs. If this site doesn't work, try http://cran.us.r-project.org/
in the US, or http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/
in the UK.
There are many graphical
interfaces. Several are reviewed here http://decisionstats.com/2010/10/05/interfaces-to-r/
and this June 2012 issue of Journal of Statistical Software
also reviews several of the GUIs http://www.jstatsoft.org/v49
and this page from linux.com http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20110306113701179/GUIsforR.html
Here is a poll on which GUIs are most used http://www.kdnuggets.com/polls/2011/r-gui-used.html
(R Studio was the top, out of 562 votes). Here is a 2015 list
of the "Best free GUIs for R" http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20110306113701179/GUIsforR.html
Just a few words about each one.
Zelig http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/zelig
"Zelig is a single, easy-to-use program that can estimate,
help interpret, and present the results of a large range of
statistical methods." You have to install it through R, and use it
in R.
R help mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
announcements, questions and answers, etc.
Tutorials, faqs, guides..... Many of these were
posted on the American Evaluation Association email list.
R Introduction and other manuals http://cran.r-project.org/index.html
At the R home page, click on Manuals.
The R site lists other guides http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html
including Simple R, and many others.
UCLA Academic Technology page for R http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/
has tutorials, links
Beginner's guide to R http://www.computerworld.com/article/2497143/business-intelligence/business-intelligence-beginner-s-guide-to-r-introduction.html
Using R for psychological research http://personality-project.org/r/
Paul Murrell's page http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/
has slides and some instructions for R.
Rtips http://pj.freefaculty.org/R/Rtips.html
various tips.
Notes on the use of R for psychology experiments
and questionnaires http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~baron/rpsych/rpsych.html
J Baron and Y Li, 2011.
Kickstarting R http://www.unt.edu/rss/class/splus/Rkickstart/index.html
from Research and Statistical Support, U North Texas
Quick R http://www.statmethods.net/
shows code for how to do lots of things, from basic data entry to
statistics.
R videos http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/12/coursera-videos.html
from Coursera's class.
Swirl http://swirlstats.com/
"learn R in R"
Try R http://tryr.codeschool.com/
an on line brief class. Additional info here http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-r
CodeSchool https://www.codeschool.com/free
has a class on R programming
Douglas Wiig has some tutorials on R and some GUIs for R;
https://dmwiig.net/
More R info and links http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/what-is-open-source-r/r-resources.php
http://journal.r-project.org/
Journal about R
R is also used for data mining
http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rdatamining/
is a comprehensive data mining package for R
Explained a little
here https://sites.google.com/site/rdatamining/package
http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2009-2/
Rattle: A Data Mining GUI for R, by Graham Williams.
The R site for Rattle is
here http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rattle/index.html
http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html
R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies” by
Yanchang Zhao
Other - General statistical packages
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ADE-4 http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/ADE-4/home.php?lang=eng
ADE-4 is a multivariate analysis and graphical
display software package.
I sometimes have difficulty with this link. Also,
I don't see any 'about' page, or page saying who developed this.
Also, I think it might be an R package. I'll leave it here anyway.
AM statistical software http://am.air.org/ AM
is a statistical software package for analyzing data from complex
samples, especially large-scale assessments.
Arc regression software http://www.stat.umn.edu/arc/software.html
From
R. Dennis Cook and Sanford Weisberg. "Arc is a free, unique,
menu-driven statistical analysis tool for regression problems." The
current version is from 2004.
Develve http://develve.net/
from
Frank Pauw. Develve has a free version. "Statistical package
for fast and easy interpretation of experimental data in science and
R&D in a technical environment."
Develve was used here
Adam Bownik, Zofia Stępniewska. Protective effects of
bacterial osmoprotectant ectoine on bovine erythrocytes subjected
to staphylococcal alpha-haemolysin. Toxicon. Volume 99, 1 June
2015, Pages 130–135 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zofia_Stepniewska/publication/274513872_Protective_effects_of_bacterial_osmoprotectant_ectoine_on_bovine_erythrocytes_subjected_to_staphylococcal_alpha-haemolysin/links/554759bb0cf23ff7168720dc.pdf
Easyreg http://econ.la.psu.edu/~hbierens/EASYREG.HTM
from
Herman J. Bierens. This is actually an econometrics program, but it
apparently does basic statistics as well, and some very advanced
statistics related to econometrics, including time series analysis.
Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) http://ess.r-project.org/
"is an add-on package for emacs text editors such as GNU Emacs and
XEmacs. It is designed to support editing of scripts and interaction
with various statistical analysis programs such as R, S-Plus, SAS,
Stata and JAGS"
Epidata http://www.epidata.dk/
"a data-entry and data-checking program for Microsoft
Windows." Epidata is data entry and data checking. According
to the website, "EpiData Analysis performs basic statistical
analysis, graphs, and comprehensive data management. E.g.
descriptive statistics, SPC Charts, Recoding data, label values and
variables. Defining missing values."
A related site is Pepi for windows at http://www.brixtonhealth.com/
- some statistical tests and descriptives. This
site also includes a few other programs such as EpiGram, simple
diagramming software, and SampleXS, which is a sample size
calculator, which allows for design effects. The help box has
very good documentation about sampling and what the program
does. For social surveyors, you need to change the confidence
interval to 5 rather than .5. However, the site doesn't have
any information about the people who developed this.
Instat is listed here http://www.reading.ac.uk/ssc/resourcepage/instat.php
general statistical package. A few years ago, I used an old
version to import an excel file. Correlations did okay when
correlating two variables. When I last used this, the last case has
to have values for all variables for Instat to completely read the
data, at least for correlation.
JASP https://jasp-stats.org/
An alternative to SPSS and R. A fairly new package so still being
developed. A lot of it seems Bayesian, but also the usual
statistical tests.
Mentioned here: What Are the Odds? A
Practical Guide to Computing and Reporting Bayes Factors http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jps/vol7/iss1/2/
The JASP team wrote about it here
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2015/march-15/bayes-or-bust-with-new-softwares.html
Also reviewed here https://computingforpsychologists.wordpress.com/tag/pspp/
One of the authors also presented the software
here https://ppw.kuleuven.be/home/english/research/mesrg/seminars-and-events/registration-seminar-advanced-data-analysis-2016
Used in this study: Tali Leibovich, Noga Cohen,
Avishai Henik. Itsy bitsy spider?: Valence and self-relevance
predict size estimation. Biological Psychology.
Available online 21 January 2016. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301051116300084
Lazstat http://statprogramsplus.com/.index.html
Free statistical program, from Bill Miller. According
to Mr. Miller, "LazStats is written in a free Pascal compiler
(Lazarus) that can be downloaded for free and is compatible to the
former Borland compiler Delphi. I've made the source of
LazStats available so it can be compiled for other systems such as
Apple or Linux platforms. It contains features very similar to
OpenStat and any programmer can add their own routines if they
want." OpenStat is another program on this website. The 2014
version has a kind of problem, that the pairwise deletion for
correlations does not work. OpenStat does listwise deletion instead,
even if you specify pairwise. LazStat works, though.
MicrOsiris http://www.microsiris.com/
from
Neal and Susan Van Eck. This program "is derived from OSIRIS IV, a
statistical and data management package developed and used at the
University of Michigan and includes special techniques for data
mining and analysis of nominal- and ordinal-scaled data. Its
free but can contribute $25 to get rid of start up reminder screen.
PSPP http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/
"is
a
program
for
statistical
analysis
of
sampled
data.
It
is
a
Free
replacement
for
the
proprietary
program
SPSS,
and
appears
very
similar
to
it
with a few exceptions."
This page http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html
lists where you can get it, in all the different versions (windows,
unix, mac, etc)
For the windows version, get it here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/
and then click on the line
that starts with ""Looking for the latest version? Download pspp
..." then lists a version number.
A discussion list is here https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
A video on PSPP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d44AdFZIfZc
by a student. 5 minutes, an overview of a few things.
SalStat http://www.salstat.com/
general stat program, but you need to install python first.
Also, no information about any of the people who made this.
SOFA - Statistics Open For All http://www.sofastatistics.com/home.php Currently
being developed. From Dr Grant Paton-Simpson. Has some basic
procedures, mean, median, sd, independent and paired t-tests, Mann-Whitney U,
Wilcoxon Signed Ranks, Pearson's Chi Square, one-way ANOVAs, Kruskal Wallis H,
and Spearman's and Pearson's correlations. As of 2/26/16, it does
NOT have regression. Also, as of 2/26/16, the site talks about being
installed on Windows 7, kinda old. No mention of 8 or 10. Can
link directly to data from MySQL, SQLite, MS Access, and MS SQL Server, and
can import data in csv or Excel format. Further information is
here http://sourceforge.net/projects/sofastatistics/
Statistical lab http://www.statistiklabor.de/en/
for teaching stat and for doing some analysis.
Vista http://forrest.psych.unc.edu/research/
visual statistical system. Last updated in 1999. The site also says
"ViSta 6.4 for Windows is the first official release of ViSta 6. It
has been tested and works very well under Windows 95, 98 and NT 4
and 2000. It is not available for 16-bit or 32-bit Win3.x, Macintosh
or Unix machines."
WinIDAMS http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2070&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
WinIDAMS is a software package internationally developed by
UNESCO for the validation, manipulation and statistical analysis of
numerical data of any kind. (This site takes a while to load.)
Unfortunately, WinIDAMS is no longer supported or updated by
UNESCO. Last updated in 2008.
I've been using this program for a while. Here are some
tips: http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/winidams_tips.html
Winstat http://math.exeter.edu/rparris/winstats.html
from Rick Parris. bunch of stat features. Last updated in 2012, and
last updated for windows 7.
On line statistical
analysis
Statistics Online Computational Resource http://www.socr.ucla.edu/
Classification and data mining
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Guide http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~loh/guide.html
Classification and regression tree software. From Wei-Yin Loh.
Tanagra http://chirouble.univ-lyon2.fr/~ricco/tanagra/index.html
data mining
Weka http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/
machine language used for data mining.
Here are some tutorials
http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~Classes/Ect584/Weka/
http://research.cs.queensu.ca/home/cisc333/tutorial/Weka.html
Qualitative data
analysis (qda)
What is qda, how to do it, what software... look at these pages.
On line qda http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/index.php
some how to, links to software, reviews of software
Qual page http://www.qualitativeresearch.uga.edu/QualPage/
lists some software
TextStat http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/en/textstat/
free simple text analysis software. Word counts,
and also shows where the words appear.
Saturate http://www.saturateapp.com/
The website says "Simple collaborative qualitative analysis.
Saturate is the easiest way for teams to code and memo their data"
Weft QDA http://www.pressure.to/qda/
Weft QDA is an easy-to-use tool to assist in the analysis of textual
data such as interview transcripts, written texts and fieldnotes.
RQDA http://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org/
"RDQA is a R package for Qualitative Data Analysis, a free (free as
freedom) qualitative analysis software application"
QDA Miner Lite http://provalisresearch.com/products/qualitative-data-analysis-software/freeware/
"It can be used for the analysis of textual data such as interview
and news transcripts, open-ended responses, etc. as well as for the
analysis of still images." It's missing a lot of the
features of the full version, but I haven't used either so I don't
know how significant the differences are.
Aquad http://www.aquad.de/en/
AQUAD 7 is open-source freeware (according to the conditions of GNU
GPL v.3). The recent version 7.3 allows to analyze all kinds
of qualitative data:
Data visualization
Mondrian http://www.theusrus.de/Homepage_of_Martin_Theus.html
"General purpose statistical visualization system."
Gephi https://gephi.github.io/
"Interactive visualization and exploration platform
for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and
hierarchical graphs."
Vidi http://www.dataviz.org/
free, for visualization
Wordle http://www.wordle.net/
is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you
provide. Not exactly analysis, but looks kind of interesting.
Tableau https://public.tableau.com/s/
I think this is free data visualization software. May be used
for mapping too.
Weave http://oicweave.org/
The website says "Weave is a new web-based visualization platform
designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for
any purpose."
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Stat with
excel
Excel For Statistical Data Analysis http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/excel/excel.htm
general tutorial, from Professor Hossein Arsham.
tutorial from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeKyTGZlLhI
from
Alan Swank at Spring Arbor University
another tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTz2PQ-CdJU
number
one in a set. Doesn't say who this is from.
Excel add ons
Check which version of excel the add on works with.
Statpages http://statpages.info/javasta2.html#Excel
lists a bunch of excel add
ons for statistics
Robert Nau and John Butler have this page for excel add ons for
regression and multivariate data analysis http://regressit.com/
ez analyze http://www.ezanalyze.com/
"adding "point and click" functionality for analyzing data,
creating graphs, and creating new variables"
Daniel's XL toolbox http://xltoolbox.sourceforge.net/
for analyzing and presenting data
Statistical
software email lists
http://www.talkstats.com/forumdisplay.php/15-Statistical-Software
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Mapping/GIS packages available as
free software
lists of software
GEO Community lists and reviews some free viewers, here http://software.geocomm.com/viewers/
Some of the viewers or programs can do basic mapping.
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/
"OSGeo was created to support the collaborative development of open
source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use"
They have a section with desktop applications, which point to Grass,
Marble and QGIS.
GIS Lounge https://www.gislounge.com/open-source-gis-applications/
lists freeware and open source gis programs.
http://opensourcegis.org/
has gis and related software. Last updated December 2013
http://freegis.org/
The FreeGIS Project (last updated in 2012) provides
* software overview on free Geographic Information Systems (this web
site)
* communication on developments, plans, infos on free GIS software
and free Geo-Data (mailing list)
* software and data prepared for direct use (CD)
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Christine gis system http://www.christine-gis.com/en/index.htm
The web site says "Christine is a useful,
easy-to-use tool that brings geographic
information
to your deskop." I don't know anything about it. The VIEWER is
free but the full program is shareware. The program is listed in
the Gislounge and other places:
viewer listed here http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/public/gis/Links.html
Diva-Gis http://www.diva-gis.org/
a
mapping
program.
The
web
site
says
this
"is
a
free
mapping
program,
sometimes
called
geographic
information
system
(GIS),
that
can
be
used
for
many
different
purposes."
Listed here
http://ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?seq_no_115=221326&pf=1
http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/DIVA_GIS.html
epi info also can do maps.
http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/
GRASS
GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) http://grass.osgeo.org/index.php
"is a free and open source Geographic Information System
(GIS) software suite used for geospatial data management and
analysis, image processing, graphics and maps production, spatial
modeling, and visualization."
Grass is listed here
here http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/mitasova-grass-092663.html
here http://www.gis.fhwa.dot.gov/gisSoftware.asp
here http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GRASS.html
gvSIG http://www.gvsig.com/en/home
"is a tool oriented to manage geographic information."
(May take a long time to load)
This program, well, an earlier version, is listed
here http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/gvSIG.html
MapWindows http://www.mapwindow.org/
has
a
GIS
program
along
with
a
lot
of
other
stuff.
"The
MapWindow
Interface
is
simple
and
easy
to
use
as
demostrated
in
this
Picture!
The MapWindow application is a free, extensible, geographic
information system (GIS) that can be used: As an alternative desktop
GIS, To distribute data to others, To develop and distribute custom
spatial data analyses"
Map Maker Gratis is free http://www.mapmaker.com/
The full professional version is available for free to
not-for-profit organizations, educational establishments, and
students in Africa.
OpenJump http://www.openjump.org/index.html
The current version can read and write shapefiles simple GML
files as well as several other vector formats via plugins. ... its
particular strength is the editing of geometry and attribute data.
QGIS http://qgis.org/
"is
a
user
friendly
Open
Source
Geographic
Information
System
(GIS)
that
runs
on
Linux,
Unix,
Mac
OSX,
and
Windows.
QGIS
supports
vector,
raster,
and
database formats."
Qgis is listed here http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/geodatacatalog/default.htm
Other software, speadsheets,
databases, graphics,
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Spreadsheets
SpreadCE http://www.byedesign.co.uk/
works on multiple systems including windows, pda's and other stuff.
Shareware, but not limited.
Some office suites also have spreadsheets
Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/
LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org/
Calligra http://www.calligra.org/
which is listed here
https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/575114:calligra-suite-the-promising-not-an-office-suite
http://www.pcworld.com/article/253738/try_calligra_2_4_for_a_new_microsoft_office_alternative.html
The calligra spreadsheet is
mentioned here https://gsspubssl.nci.nih.gov/nciportfolio/help.jsp
SSuite http://www.ssuitesoft.com/
listed here
http://download.cnet.com/SSuite-Office-Excalibur-Release/3000-18483_4-10966271.html
rated highly
Softmaker Free Office http://www.freeoffice.com/
reviewed here
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33153_7-57558720-10391733/get-a-free-office-suite-help-charity/
WPS office http://www.wps.com/
(had been Kingsoft Office).
rated highly here
http://download.cnet.com/WPS-Office-2014-Beta-3/3000-18483_4-75563178.html
But just so you know, Kingsoft
is a Chinese company http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsoft
Databases
PostgreSQL http://www.postgresql.org/
highly-scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational
database management system.
Firebird http://www.firebirdsql.org/
Another relational database.
Microsoft has an sql server http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/database.aspx
SQL Server Express. Also here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-server-editions/sql-server-express.aspx
Graphics
Gnuplot http://www.gnuplot.info/
Need programming ability to use this but supposed to produce
professional quality graphs. Still under development, see here
http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/
Recent version released January 2015.
The gnuplot info site links to tutorials. Another is:
CTG - Gnuplot Tutorial http://www.challenge.nm.org/ctg/graphics/tutorial.shtml
brief, one page.
Ploticus http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/doc/welcome.html
"A free, GPL, non-interactive software package for producing plots,
charts, and graphics from data."
EVE Embedded Vector Editor http://www.goosee.com/
graphics program. Recommended by a colleague. I havent' tried
it, but supposed to be very powerful and useful.
Dia https://live.gnome.org/Dia
"Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux, Unix
and Windows ... Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows
program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for
casual use."
Other stuff, doing surveys on the
web, misc,
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Doing Surveys
Questionnaire Programming Language http://qpl.gao.gov/
"QPL is a complete web questionnaire development and content
analysis system. Using a simple language to describe your
questionnaire, it automatically builds all the files you need to
create a dynamic web site."
Collecting and managing data
Redcap http://project-redcap.org/
Research Electronic Data Capture. It's a consortium which supports a
secure web application (REDCap) designed exclusively to support data
capture for research studies.
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Project management http://www.logframer.eu/
"Logframer 1.3 is a free project management application for projects
based on the logical framework method."
What is
free software? Sites that explain what free means and/or lists
free software.
Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org/
GNU http://www.gnu.org/
especially see this page https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Open Source Alternative to Commercial software http://www.osalt.com/
International Free and Open Source Software
Foundation http://www.ifossf.org/
actually,
I'm
not
sure
what
this
is,
whether
it
has
software
or
not. But it seems like an interesting organization.
Standard Data Sets
Statistical Reference Datasets http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd/
"The purpose of this project is to improve the accuracy of
statistical software by providing reference datasets with certified
computational results that enable the objective evaluation of
statistical software."
Other software that is free to use
https://sites.google.com/site/nselecon/freesoftware
lists misc software that is free to use
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