Veterinary epidemiology: other statistical analysis packages

Here are some other statistical analysis packages available on the internet. All are in the public domain with the exception of NCSS:

• ade4 (Multivariate analysis of qualitative, quantitative and presence/absence data based on principal components analysis, correspondence analysis and multiple correspondence analysis) http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/ADE-4/home.php?lang=eng

• EasyReg (Various econometric estimation and testing tasks, including regression analysis with discrete dependent variables) http://econ.la.psu.edu/~hbierens/EASYREG.HTM

• EpiCalc 2000 (Statistical calculator for pre-tabulated data; sample size estimation) http://www.brixtonhealth.com/epicalc.html

• Lisp-Stat (Extensible statistical computing environment for data analysis, statistical instruction and research, with an emphasis on providing a framework for exploring the use of dynamic graphical methods) http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/xls/xlsinfo/xlsinfo.html

• MAREG (Analysis of binary, categorical and continuous data with several link functions using marginal regression models that can handle correlated as well as uncorrelated data) http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/sfb386/software/mareg/winmareg.html

• MIXNO / MIXPREG / MIXREG / MIXOR / MIXORE / MIXGSUR (Group of programs for various multilevel (mixed effects) models, including regression models and survival analysis) http://tigger.uic.edu/~hedeker/mix.html

• NCSS (Working version of NCSS for Windows includes data entry, descriptive statistics, t-tests, multiple regression, tests of proportions, cross tabs, one-way ANOVA, exp. smoothing, histograms, scatter plots and box plots. Free for use in statistical classes or to investigate NCSS) http://www.ncss.com/download.html

• NetEpi (Epidemiological analysis of data sets either through a Web browser interface or via a programmatic interface. In many respects it is similar to the analysis facilities included in the EpiInfo suite, except that NetEpi Analysis is designed to be installed on servers and accessed remotely via Web browsers) http://code.google.com/p/netepi/

• OatBran Oaties (Tools in Excel for basic statistical analysis and data visualisation. Can be used online or downloaded to a computer) http://www.coventry.ac.uk/ec//~nhunt/oatbran/

• PSPP (A public domain version of the commercial software 'SPSS', for general statistical analysis) http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/

• WinEpiscope (Software for sample size estimation, evaluation of diagnostic tests (incl. ROC analysis), cross-tabulation of data from various types of epidemiological studies, Reed-Frost simulation models) http://www.clive.ed.ac.uk/cliveCatalogueItem.asp?id=B6BC9009-C10F-4393-A22D-48F436516AC4

• WinIDAMS (Validation, manipulation and statistical analysis of numerical data of any kind; in addition to standard statistical procedures includes multi-dimensional scaling and classification tree analysis) http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2070&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

• WINPEPI (Epidemiological analysis software for data already tabulated or counted; performs a wide range of standard calculations, but also some unusual procedures such as median polish, poisson probability, direct/indirect standardization, adjusted p-values for multiple comparisons or power analyses (free for private use)) http://www.brixtonhealth.com/pepi4windows.html

• ViSta (Software for univariate and multivariate statistical visualization using graphical methods) http://www.uv.es/visualstats/Book/