Reviews of Free Statistical Software

Abstract

Nowadays the use of statistical software is obvious to conduct scientific research. Select statistical software according to moral considerations requires payment of fees. In this paper investigates a number of free statistical software (Such: Dap, Dataplot, Gnumeric, MicrOsiris, OpenEpi, OpenStat, PAST, PSPP, R, Salstat, SOFA, SSP, Statist, Tanagra, WebStat, WinIDAMS). Legally use the software at no charge and the results are published. The results of this study show the advantage of statistical software (R) than other free programs by their ability to function, restriction and public acceptance in use for publication of research papers.

Keywords

• statistics
• computer software
• data collection
• methodology
• data