Statistics Programs used
Free Statistics Programs
- R
- RStudio
- Calc
Paid Statistics Programs
- SPSS
- Stata
- MiniTab
- Excel with data analisys add in
- XLStat
- EViews
Basic statistics is possible to be done into Excel or other spreadsheet.
R allows to do most of the things that are done into paid packages.
R with Rcmdr is friendly but SPSS and Stata have a more user friendly interface.
Some programs are more oriented to specific tasks.
For instance, EViews is prepared to work with time series.