Best Free Statistical Softwares for Data Analysis and Download Links

Today, I bring you a list of 3 of the best analytical software for statisticians. What is most surprising is that you don't have to pay "a shilling" to get any of them. i.e They are totally free!!!! Most less-comprehensive analytical tools don't even come this easily, but anyone (including myself), would be happy to get this totally free of any charge. There are other free statistical software, but these are the 3 that I selected as excellent standouts. They are Epi Info, Scilab, and R .

Software                                                      Function                                                       Link

Epi Info                     Questionnaire Analysis in Public Health,                                 Epi Info™
                                 Biostatistics, Medical Statistics e.t.c Has an extraordinary
                                 Mapping tool. Perfect for test on Contingency Tables &
                                 Logistic Regression.           


Scilab                       Mathematical and Statistical analysis like Integration,                   Scilab 
                                Differentiation, Matrices, Vectors, ANOVA, Regression etc.
                                Has interface similar to that of MATLAB & can be considered
                                a mini-MATLAB.



R                             One of the best statistical tools for Data Analysis and Linear Algebra.        R
                                Perfect for Matrix and Vector analysis and constructing. Good plotting
                                tool & Random Number Generator for most statistical distributions
                                also embedded.



There are also many others that are really cool and flexible. I will be posting them very soon.
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Thought for the day.

Russians have made a lot of contribution in probability, stochastic & functional analysis as it relates to statistics.

Indian have contributed much in Inferential Statistics.

American have contributed immensely in almost all areas.

Do we give it to the Americans?

Your thoughts.

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Men may soon outlive women

Women have had a longer life expectancy than men, ever since records began, but this may be set to change in the not-too-distant future.

An adviser to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has predicted that by the time today's 12-year-old boys reach the age of 30, they should be able to enjoy a life expectancy of just over 87 years.

This means they will be matching the life expectancy of their female counterparts or the first time.

And they may even outlive females born at the same time soon after, according to Professor Leslie Mayhew, a statistician at City University, London.

Professor Mayhew believes that men's increasingly healthy lifestyles, falling smoking rates and decreasing number of deaths from heart attacks will bring their life expectancy in line with that of women.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, he said: 'There has been a huge decline in the numbers working in heavy industry, far fewer males smoke than before and there is much better treatment for heart disease, which tends to affect more males than females.'

Figures from the British Heart Foundation show that one in five male deaths and one in eight female deaths in 2009 were from coronary heart disease.

Source:  www.netdoctor.co.uk

Who is the Father of Modern Statistics?

A) Sir Ronald Fisher

B) Rao Calyampudi Radharikrishnan

C) David Blackwell

D) Others

Note: The options above are the author's point of view there are many distinguished Statisticians around the World too many to mention.

Research Paper: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ACTUAL VALUE AND ESTIMATED MISSING VALUE IN SOME ORTHOGONAL BLOCK DESIGNS

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ACTUAL VALUE AND ESTIMATED      MISSING VALUE IN SOME ORTHOGONAL BLOCK DESIGNS

A. V. Oladugba and C. E. Ogbonnaya

Department of Statistics

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this work is to find out if the same conclusion will be reached when “actual value” and “estimated missing value” of some orthogonal block designs are compared using three imputation of estimating missing value methods (the mean method, least squares method and regression imputation method), and also to see if there is any significant difference in the three imputation methods chosen. Estimation of missing values using these imputation methods do not void the result obtained from statistical analysis since the conclusion reached using any imputation method agrees with the conclusion reached using the complete data. From the result obtained in the significance test, we conclude that the difference in estimates for missing observations obtained using the mean method, least squares method and regression imputation is not significant. This implies that the difference in estimates obtained using the three methods are ignorable.

For further details, contact the author on chexyworld@yahoo.com.

Further works on Estimation of Missing Data in Latin Square & Graceo-Latin Squares coming up.

World Internet Usage Facts

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support email.

    Over the years, usage of the internet both on personal computers, Ipad, Iphones, Android, etc has evolved. This has accelerated new forms of interactions through instant messaging, social networking, blogging, and other forms of internet forums.  As of 2011, more than 2.1 billion people of the world's population of  about 7 billion had access to the internet.

International Coalition Urges United Nations To Protect Targeted Statisticians in Argentina

UNITED NATIONS

A coalition of international statistical organizations has urged a United Nations Special
Rapporteur to protect statisticians who have been the victims of escalating attacks by the
Government of Argentina. The appeal to the Special Rapporteur, whose charge is the
promotion and protection of the right of freedom of opinion and expression, was made
in August by the American Statistical Association (ASA) in a letter signed by Executive
Director Ron Wasserstein and William Seltzer, chair of the association's Committee on
Scientific Freedom and Human Rights. Since then, other statistical groups have
supported the ASA appeal by writing letters of their own to the Special Rapporteur.
In late September, a letter of support was sent by Jean-Michel Poggie, the president of
the Societe Francaise de Statistique. A second letter was written by Jae C. Lee, president
of the International Statistical Institute. Earlier this month, Jong Hoo Choi, president of
the Korean Statistical Society, also wrote, urging action to protect the targeted
individuals in Argentina. Additional professional societies in other countries are
expected to join this coalition in the coming weeks, according to Wasserstein and
Seltzer.