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.