About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Free Bayesian statistics software, Free data analysis software, Free econometrics software, Free plotting software, Free web analytics software, R (programming language), Gnuplot, Epi Info, ADMB, Webalizer, Bioconductor, VisIt, OpenEpi, ROOT, RapidMiner, Grace, GGobi, Matplotlib, Rmetrics, SciDAVis, PSPP, Gretl, MCSim, OpenBUGS, AWStats, Shogun, Plotutils, Lumi, Analog, DataScene, Mondrian data analysis, Armadillo, Rattle GUI, RExcel, W3Perl, SOFA Statistics, MayaVi, QtiPlot, Standardized mortality ratio, AIDA, JFreeChart, PokerStove, LabPlot, CSPro, Piwik, GraphCalc, ADaMSoft, HippoDraw, Emacs Speaks Statistics, Graphics Layout Engine, Xgraph, Just another Gibbs sampler, Fityk, Journal of Statistical Software, DAP, Open Web Analytics, MCLUST, SciGraphica, Sweave, Java Analysis Studio, PGPLOT, IDAMS, CrawlTrack, JMulTi, PLplot, Java GUI for R, R Commander, OpenPlaG, Ploticus, RGtk2, KChart, X-12-ARIMA, EpsTk, RKWard, OpenScientist, XLispStat, Apemost, Bayes++, Kst, Grid Analysis and Display System, IDPS Software, Bayesian Filtering Library, Yxilon, RGL, Descartes, IDIS. Excerpt: In this article, the word free generally means can be legally obtained without paying any money (cf. free beer). Just a few of the software packages mentioned here are also free as in the sense of free speech: they are not only open source but also free software in the sense that the source code of the software is freely available and can be freely modified by anyone who so desires, and also distributed to others, as long as those re-distributed modifications remain free in exactly the same strong sense. Free statistical software is a practical alternative to commercial packages. In general, free statistical software gives results that are the same as the results from commercial programs, and many of the packages are fairly easy to learn, us...