Computer Programs for Analysing Quantitative Data

Ray W. Cooksey
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Ray W. Cooksey: University of New England, UNE Business School

Chapter Chapter 3 in Illustrating Statistical Procedures: Finding Meaning in Quantitative Data, 2020, pp 33-49 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There are numerous statistical analysis software systems of generally high quality currently available. We review and compare five such software systems, i.e. statistical packages, in this chapter with a view to what they can accomplish and why they might be useful to business, social and behavioural researchers: SPSS, SYSTAT, NCSS, STATGRAPHICS Centurion and R. These five packages serve as primary focal points when reviewing available computer programs for conducting specific statistical procedures throughout this book. Other packages are also briefly reviewed including Stata, Statistica, SAS, eViews, MPlus, UNISTAT, XLSTAT, Excel and AMOS. Finally, we discuss several considerations with respect to using statistical software packages including how to prepare and check data and some caveats relating to their use.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-2537-7_3

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