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Statistical software for Engineers

Statistical software for Engineers

(OP)
Hello all,

Can anyone recommend any free statistical analysis software (ideally for engineering). I really need something ASAP, I am looking at normal distributions of surface asperities.

I look forward to your input, thanks.

RE: Statistical software for Engineers

(OP)
Thanks IRStuff,

It seems that the software is not compatible with the Windows 64bit OS. Is there any alternatives. I wanted to be able to plot statistical graphs, e.g. normal distribution, etc easily without having to type PDF formulas etc. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks again.

RE: Statistical software for Engineers

XLSTAT http://www.xlstat.com has a 30-day free trial. It's an Excel plug-in,
works great for me.

Good on ya,

Goober Dave

RE: Statistical software for Engineers

I use MathCAD.  Very similar to Excel except better formulae writing for documentation in addition to a calculator.

Kenneth J Hueston, PEng
Principal
Sturni-Hueston Engineering Inc
Edmonton, Alberta Canada

RE: Statistical software for Engineers

(OP)
Thanks everyone, I ended up using Excel to do this task. I really appreciate your input.

RE: Statistical software for Engineers

(OP)
Yes I agree, both Smath Studio and MathCAD can not match Excel in its graphing capabilities, but then again I don't think it's meant to. As always, we need more than one tool for the job. Thanks.

RE: Statistical software for Engineers

I think MINITAB is awesome stats software!

RE: Statistical software for Engineers

Quote (TERIO):

I haven't used it, but maybe R: http://www.r-project.org/
I haven't had a need to sit down and learn it, but R seems quite powerful. R seems to have quite a loyal following, and there are plenty of examples and an active user base on the web.

For the little bit of sadistical... erm... statistical work that I have to do, Octave (or Matlab) has plenty of functionality.

Octave (and R) have the benefit of being free.

//signed//
Christopher K. Hubley
Mechanical Engineer
Sunpower Incorporated
Athens, Ohio
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