Statistical Software Survey
Table 1
| Product | Vendor | Year First Version was Released | Software Description | Targeted Market |
| @RISK | Palisade Corporation | 1987 | @RISK performs risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation to show you many possible outcomes in Excel | Six Sigma, Manufacturing, Finance, Defense, Energy, Insurance and Reinsurance, Pharmaceuticals. |
| AcaStat | AcaStat Software | 1999 | Easy to use statistical software for students and managers. | Education and business |
| Autobox 6.0 | Automatic Forecasting Systems, Inc. | 1976 | Autobox will automatically build a customized model for univariate and multvariate time series data. Batch and Interactive | Autobox has been used in a variety of purposes in professional and academic settings. |
| CBC (Choice-Based Conjoint) | Sawtooth Software, Inc. | 1993 | Software for Choice-Based Conjoint (Discrete Choice Analysis). For predicting choices among complex products/services. | Market research, healthcare, economics. |
| CBC/HB | Sawtooth Software, Inc. | 1998 | Hierarchical Bayes estimation of part-worths for discrete choice (CBC) experiments. Stated preference modelling. | Market research, healthcare, economics. |
| CCEA (Convergent Cluster & Ensemble Analysis) | Sawtooth Software | 2008 | Software for performing K-Means and Cluster Ensemble Analysis. | Market research, healthcare, economics. |
| DTREG | Phillip H Sherrod | 2001 | Predictive modeling software - decision trees, neural nets, SVM, genetic evolution | commercial marketing, medical, research |
| iData | MJC2 | 1992 | Flexible forecasting and statistical analysis package. | All sectors. |
| JMP 8 | SAS Institute | 1989 | JMP is SAS' easy to use desktop solution providing dynamic graphing, data visualization, comprehensive statistics and DOE. | Engineers, Business Analysts, R&D, Quality & Six Sigma |
| MaxDiff | Sawtooth Software, Inc. | 2004 | Maximum Difference Scaling (best/worst scaling) of items, such as product attributes, brands, features, position statements. | Market research, opinion research, health care, economics. |
| Minitab 15 | Minitab Inc. | 1972 | Powerful data and graphical analysis capabilities. The leading statistical software used for quality improvement worldwide. | Manufacturing, transactional, healthcare, Six Sigma, and education. |
| NAG C Library | Numerical Algorithms Group | 1988 | Mathematical & statistical library - over 1,000 callable routines | finance, research engineering, retail |
| NLREG | Phillip H Sherrod | 1995 | Nonlinear regression (curve fitting) | Enginnering, scientific, educational |
| Optimal Scientist Software Package | Transpower Corporation | 1993 | Design and analyze optimal experiments | industry, academia |
| Resampling Stats for Excel | statistics.com | 1973 | facilitates bootstrapping, permutation and simulation procedures with data in Excel. | Statistical analysts and teachers. |
| SmartForecasts | Smart Software, Inc. | 1984 | Forecasting, Sales/Demand Planning and Inventory Optimization | Forecasters, Demand and Inventory Planners |
| Smoothie | Demand Works | 2001 | Sales and operations planning software featuring Pivot Forecasting(R) | Manufacturers and distributors |
| Stat::Fit | Geer Mountain Software Corp. | 1995 | Stat::Fit statistically fits analytical distributions to user data. Version 2 includes 32 distributions and enhanced graphics | Simulation and modeling, risk assessment, reliability, quality, engineering and financial management |
| Stata | StataCorp LP | 1985 | Stata provides full data management, graphics, statistical, and matrix language capabilities. | Stata statistical software is a general-purpose system intended for use by research professionals. |
| STATGRAPHICS Centurion | StatPoint Technologies, Inc. | 1982 | The powerful STATGRAPHICS Centurion - software used for statistical data analysis & modeling, QC, DOE, forecasting & 6 Sigma | Students and Professionals in various roles related to Six Sigma, R&D, quality manufacturing, healthcare and finance |
| StatTools | Palisade Corporation | 2003 | StatTools is an Excel add-in with 36 wide-ranging statistical procedures, 5 bulit-in data utilities, and custom analysis | Finance, Banking, Six Sigma Quality Analysis, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Science, Academic |
| Unistat Statistical Package | Unistat Ltd | 1984 | Comprehensive stand-alone package that can also work as Excel add-in | Any research, especially biomedical |
| XLMiner | statistics.com | 2002 | Data Mining add-on for Excel-classification, prediction, affinity analysis, data reduction, exploration & visualization. | Business analysts who need to learn data mining and pilot or prototype data mining applications. |
