__NOTOC__ MedCalc is a statistical software package designed for the biomedical sciences. It has an integrated spreadsheet for data input and can import files in several formats (

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, CSV, ...). MedCalc includes basic parametric and

non-parametric Nonparametric statistics is the branch of statistics that is not based solely on parametrized families of probability distributions (common examples of parameters are the mean and variance). Nonparametric statistics is based on either being distri ...

statistical procedures and graphs such as

descriptive statistics A descriptive statistic (in the count noun sense) is a summary statistic that quantitatively describes or summarizes features from a collection of information, while descriptive statistics (in the mass noun sense) is the process of using and an ...

ANOVA Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a collection of statistical models and their associated estimation procedures (such as the "variation" among and between groups) used to analyze the differences among means. ANOVA was developed by the statistician ...

, Mann–Whitney test, Wilcoxon test, χ² test,

correlation In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data. Although in the broadest sense, "correlation" may indicate any type of association, in statistics ...

linear Linearity is the property of a mathematical relationship (''function'') that can be graphically represented as a straight line. Linearity is closely related to '' proportionality''. Examples in physics include rectilinear motion, the linear r ...

as well as

non-linear regression In statistics, nonlinear regression is a form of regression analysis in which observational data are modeled by a function which is a nonlinear combination of the model parameters and depends on one or more independent variables. The data are fit ...

logistic regression In statistics, the logistic model (or logit model) is a statistical model that models the probability of an event taking place by having the log-odds for the event be a linear function (calculus), linear combination of one or more independent var ...

, and multivariate statistics. Survival analysis includes Cox regression (

Proportional hazards model Proportional hazards models are a class of survival models in statistics. Survival models relate the time that passes, before some event occurs, to one or more covariates that may be associated with that quantity of time. In a proportional hazar ...

) and Kaplan–Meier survival analysis. Procedures for method evaluation and method comparison include

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analysis,

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, as well as Deming and

Passing–Bablok regression Passing–Bablok regression is a method from robust statistics for nonparametric regression analysis suitable for method comparison studies introduced by Wolfgang Bablok and Heinrich Passing in 1983. The procedure is adapted to fit linear errors- ...

. The software also includes reference interval estimation,

meta-analysis A meta-analysis is a statistical analysis that combines the results of multiple scientific studies. Meta-analyses can be performed when there are multiple scientific studies addressing the same question, with each individual study reporting me ...

and sample size calculations. The first

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version of MedCalc was released in April 1993 and the first version for Windows was available in November 1996. Version 15.2 introduced a user-interface in English, Chinese (simplified and traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian and Spanish.

Reviews

* Stephan C, Wesseling S, Schink T, Jung K. “Comparison of eight computer programs for receiver-operating characteristic analysis.” ''

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'' 2003;49:433-439. * Lukic IK. “MedCalc Version 7.0.0.2. Software Review.” ''Croatian Medical Journal'' 2003;44:120-121. * Garber C
“MedCalc Software for Statistics in Medicine. Software review.”
''Clinical Chemistry'', 1998;44:1370. * Petrovecki M. “MedCalc for Windows. Software Review.” ''Croatian Medical Journal'', 1997;38:178.

References

External links

MedCalc Statistical Software Homepage
Statistical software Windows-only software Biostatistics {{science-software-stub

Reviews

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References

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