OpenStat

OpenStat is an ongoing project created for use by students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners with no claim or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, reliability or other characteristics desirable in commercial packages which is designed to provide a means for analysis by individuals with very limited financial resources.

OpenStat contains features such as a large variety of parametric, nonparametric, multivariate, measurement, statistical process control, financial and other procedures where users can also simulate a variety of data for tests, theoretical distributions and multivariate data. The “grid” is where data values are entered and where each column represents a “variable” and each row represents an “observation” or case.

A default label is given for the first variable and each case of data users enter will have a case number. At the top of this “main” form there is a series of “drop-down” menu items which can be clicked for a series of options (and sometimes sub-options).

The “heart” of OpenStat or any other statistics package is the data file to be created, saved, retrieved and analyzed. OpenStat supports file formats such as OPENSTAT binary files (with the file extension of .BIN), Tab separated field files (with the file extension of .TAB.).

Comma separated field files (with the file extension of .CSV.), Space separated field files (with the file extension of .SSV.), Text files (with the extension .TEX) where the file format in this text file is unique to OpenStat, Epidata files (this is a format used by Epidemiologists), Matrix files previously saved by OpenStat and Fixed Format files in which the user specifies the record format.

OpenStat runs on Windows 8, Windows 7, XP, Virtual XP (in Windows 7) or older versions of Windows and if users are using Linux or MacIntosh OSX, users can download the free WINE software and run OpenStat with WINE.