Fortunately you do get an error message, but it's strange that it can't just open up a new tab, or go down to the first blank cell. Since there's no syntax or logging going on, that can mean a fair amount of work to re-create existing work. One new problem we encountered is that the program demands you save or copy out the results of the prior analysis before going into another one, or else it will simply overwrite whatever you have. Then Excel opens up, a new worksheet is created, and the program writes out its tables to Excel. Once you click on OK, it can take anywhere from the blink of an eye to around ten seconds for a moderately sized data set to get analyzed, with no feedback at all. Advanced options is often grayed out, but when you can use it, it provides more control in some cases.
#Statplus linux pro#
It may take a few seconds (longer on slower machines we tested on a Macbook Pro and a Mac Pro), but you will get an intermediate box like the one above (for frequency tables). If you haven't already selected the range of data you want, the program will still put you into Excel, where you can select what you want and then return by clicking on StatPlus in the dock or cloverleaf-tabbing back.
If you've already selected a range, just click Range you will be put into Excel, but you can just come back to StatPlus. StatPlus has one advantage over SPSS there - you won’t get a never-ending printout of nearly identical frequencies.) Once you select a procedure, you get a dialogue box asking you to select a range in Excel (or, in the case of frequency tables, a question asking if you have discrete or continuous variables. One nice thing about not having to play around with the user interface all day is that the programmers can keep building in new capabilities. One item of interest is how much more you get with version 5 of StatPlus than with version 4. You can also prepare your data with tools above and beyond those provided by Excel: Cleverly, StatPlus launches Excel automatically when you start it up, saving a step and making it seem more seamless. The Help system is fully developed, in a standard Mac format, and is moderately easy to read. It’s easy to learn, yet contains numerous statistical methods that are not normally provided by easy-to-learn software, including one, two, and three way ANOVAs, GLM models, and many other analyses. The analyses menu provides simple, easily understood categories, and underneath those are submenus with the actual operations. StatPlus itself is a fairly small, fast-loading program that has a small number of menus - one that launches Excel one that provides statistical analyses and one that manipulates data. Why not just use Excel to hold the data and the findings? StatPlus does just that. SPSS 17 even has a moderately clunky "Excel export mode." In the end, many copy tables out of SPSS or R or Stata and paste them into Excel. Many people end up using Excel, Numbers, or OpenOffice to prepare their data and make simple tables, and then go into serious statistical machines to run analyses. The basic idea is quite clever, because the key weakness of many statistical packages is their spreadsheet-style data view, which is usually missing, clunky, or very clunky.
#Statplus linux windows#
Because of this, it is fast and has none of the usual quirks of Windows ports. StatPlus is based on a Windows program, but AnalystSoft reprogrammed it completely in Applescript, optimized for either Intel or PPC (which means it takes advantage of the G4 and G5’s math capabilities). That said, watch this space and we’ll try to get up to date before AnalystSoft figures out what we want and gives it to us.
#Statplus linux update#
We fully expect that by the time we review 5.4 and update this page, a version 5.5 with a syntax language and nicer output options will have appeared. Missing values and alphanumerics are, we are told, handled far better than in the past.You no longer have to switch in and out of Excel you now have an Excel add-in which provides the StatPlus menus within the program.The rest of this review discusses version 5.3.5.1, but the current version is 5.4, and it has numerous changes. It seems that every time we review StatPlus for Mac, the publisher addresses all of our concerns and issues a new release a few days later. StatPlus still works with Excel starting from 2004, and now supports Apple Numbers 2016 support is coming along with other updates. In 2016, the publisher contacted us to say they had released a major update in 2016, and had a new team.
#Statplus linux software#
StatPlus for Mac: statistics software review ( version 5.3.5.1 - current version is 5.4)
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