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Support for Statistical Software

Tutorials | In-person

Statistical Analysis | Data Conversion | Resources for Multiple Packages

Statistical Analysis

• R
• SAS
• SAS on Athena
• Getting Started with SAS for Windows (Indiana University)
• How to Use SAS Setup Files (ICSPR)
• SAS Online Resources for Statistics Education (SAS Institute Inc.)
• Splus
• SPLUS on Athena
• SPSS
• How to Use SPSS Setup Files (ICSPR)
• SPSS Learning Modules (UCLA)
• SPSS for Windows: Getting Started (University of Texas)
• Stata
• Stata Resources (Stata Corporation)
• Reading fixed-format ascii data into Stata (Stata Corporation)
• Stata Tutorial (Princeton University)

Data Conversion

• DBMS/Copy
• Stat/Transfer

Resources for Multiple Packages

Tutorials

• General Statistical Tutorials (Harvard-MIT Data Center)
  Links to online tutorials and guides for various software packages
• Statistical Computing Resources (UCLA)
  Tutorials on SAS, SPSS, Stata, S-Plus/R, and Stat/Transfer.
• Statistical Software (University of Waterloo, Ontario)
  Tutorials on SAS, SPSS, Systat, and S-Plus/R.

List Serves

• Statistical Software List Subscription Service (Stat/Transfer)
  List of statistically-oriented e-mail discussion lists.

Books/Manuals

In Barton, try the following subject headings:

• Mathematical statistics -- Computer programs
• Mathematical statistics -- Data processing
• Use the name of the software in the subject heading (e.g. R, SAS, etc.).