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What are you trying to do? If you just want to run some analysis on some data you already have, then SPSS is probably your best bet, although it is expensive (if you're at college then there's a good chance they'll have a license). If you want to include some stats tests in something you're writing then it really depends on what tests you need to include.
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Hi Christopher,
I'm actually trying gather as many ideas and points of view as possible.
This is a field that interest me and I would like to study the subject, maybe even run some experiments. who know... 
I thought that I would have to do something from scratch, but it appears that there are quite a few tools ready to be used. Unfortunately my university doesn't have any "agreement" to provide licenses for SPSS
Regards
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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I wasn't so much thinking that your university would have an agreement to provide you with a license for SPSS, but more that someone would have a copy you could use - but that would only really have been useful if you had a specific data set you wanted to analyse.
A program that's widely used in biological sciences is Prism Graphpad. I've not used it myself, but my understanding is that it's quite straightforward (in contrast to SPSS, for example, which has a pretty step learning curve) and Prism provide a fully functioning 30 demo that you can download for free.
Once you've familiarised yourself with some of the tests then the best way to really learn about them would be to code them yourself!
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Oh, they have partnership with some software companies, so my mind jumped straight to that. I'll have to check if someone has a copy.
Thanks for all the advice, I'm not sure if Prism is the one, but it is worth a shot..
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/[^]
Here is an open source SPSS clone that is very powerful. You may want to evaluate it. There are multiple environments.
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
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Hi,
Thx for the reply. One of the guys has already mentioned it.
It truly looks quite good. 
Regards
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Minitab () is popular amongst scientists and engineers.
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R is great if you want to learn a programming language and is free, but
if you want a powerful menu driven Stats tool, then you could try our program GenStat
(www.genstat.com). It's much cheaper than SAS or SPSS and has more modern statistics.
The software was started in 1968 so it has a long history of refinement and improvement.
David Baird
VSN NZ Ltd
GenStat developer.
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I'm grad student, doing some biological data analysis. Although I use R/Python/MATLAB exclusively, I have seen my colleagues use some of the following things. R/Python are standard norms here. Beyond that, if you're looking for tools with "nice" GUI and built-in analysis, you're really looking at a large variety. No tool does everything (or just-about-everything), but many tools do a lot of things.
On commercial end, cheapest to get into would be JMP. Then you're looking at Stata. SAS and SPSS are mostly cost-prohibitive unless a large company or university is paying. On open-source end, you have Deducer, which is similar to JMP (but has quite limited set of features). There's also Minitab for quality control related analysis.
There are some programs to help you with specific type of analysis. For example, machine learning and data mining related work can be done using Weka. Data mining and visualization using GGobi and Cranvas (requires R, but it's worth a look I think). Network analysis related statistics are available through Gephi and Cytoscape. Bayesian simulation via nice "friendly" programs based on BUGS Project.
There are tons more for specific types of tasks, but I think most of the tasks you wish to do, above mentioned tools can get you your answers.
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Wow, that is a lot of stuff new to me. Thank you, it might take me some time, but I'll try to look at all links provided
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Does anyone have any experience with this?
[SailfishOS.org]
It looks interesting. I quite like Qt.
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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Mel Padden wrote: Does anyone have any experience with this?
Nope. Looks interesting, but that's the great thing about the Internet. Looks can be quite deceiving.
Marc
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let not be selfish (pun intented) and try it out and report.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Anyone else here watching it? 
Are you for the Maroons or the Blues?
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Can I vote for the Cyans? I don't like Magenta...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Nope nobody ever watches it or comments about it on here. Not even that Aussie who's always whinging that his team lose it.
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I flipped the channel to check it out just in time to see a bloke running around in a black bra. A strange code this.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Was that before kickoff?
The pre-game hype-show gets worse every year. 
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http://what-if.xkcd.com/98/[^]
Why? Simply because it's not often that I read a article that includes such good advice: "you shouldn't drink the blood of someone with Ebola"
In fact, never before - and I can't see a situation when I'd want to read it again...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Perhaps if you get turned into a vampire?  Provided you weren't immune to Ebola then.
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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This is Wales - nobody would notice if I did, since the sun never shines here anyway... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I'm a Brit who has never tried black pudding (never wants to!) does that make me less of a Brit...
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I'll try eating anything once: Black Pudding was a "once". It's a "Marmite" moment, I think: you love it or you hate it.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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