After attending and finishing the course of the biomedical statistics , i felt isolated cause am a GNU’s guy , so i believed to look for something GNU , Free , Open source as an alternative ,however , there is not much to see , i found most of the professional ones are commercial and legacy statistical software . i believe somehow most of the people used to see the statistcs as going to dentist , so they just passing through , may be that’s the major lack of free and open source documentry about it .

SPSS :
The Famous and legacy package of statistical analysis software , the company has a complete suite for Data Analysis , data mining , which will fit for researchers , and research centers .

However , it’s really expensive , they have types of license for : centers , researchers , and students .
Last version : 17 . Commercial software . Home page .

MedCalc :
A statistical software dedicated for biomedical analysis , it worked on windows platform , it has a small size , simple interface , and almost all the features biomedical researchers need .

Home page , Commercial software ( with a trial  edition runs 25 times without activation )

Statsdirect :
the first time i know about this statistical package , i read about in BMJ , however it’s also not free but its not that expensive ,
i did not try it , as the most of other software however , it seems useful , and handy . you have to reqister to try .

License : Commercial Home page .

SAS :
as a linux guy , SAS works for me ( works on many platforms )  , it’s also a legendary package for statical analysis , it’s really featured rich , and suite the research centers and experiance researchers .

License : Commercial  Homepage

NCSS :

Another professional package that woks only on windows , its too costly for students and individual researchers . however its well documents , and offers a 7 days trial ,

License : Commercial software  , Homepage .

Statistica :
another professional statistical page , offers a trial version , with some sort of tutorials and good tutorials in their sites
License : Commercial , Homepage .

R Project :

 

Well It’s Free , It’s Open Source , It’s GNU , but do not get so excited , it’s geeky and tricky . not that simple in using , its not that tricky if you are a computer geek , however it’s really featured rich , full of advantage , Well documented , and supported . runs on linux , windows , MacOSX

License : Free
Homepage .


PSPP :
another  GNU , open source free
License : Free
Homepage .

More statistical resources :

Statpages : this site full of statistical resources , the researchers might needs , it includes Free software  , Tutorials , and resources links .

Journal of Statistical software .

Hamza Emadeen Mousa

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