SYSTAT is a
statistics
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and statistical graphics
software
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At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
package, developed by
Leland Wilkinson
Leland Wilkinson (November 5, 1944 – December 10, 2021) was an American statistician and computer scientist at H2O.ai and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago. Wilkinson developed the SYSTAT statistical p ...
in the late 1970s, who was at the time an
assistant professor
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Overview
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of psychology at the
University of Illinois at Chicago
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. Systat Software Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and grew to over 50 employees.
In 1995, SYSTAT was sold to
SPSS Inc., who marketed the product to a scientific audience under the SPSS Science division. By 2002, SPSS had changed its focus to
business analytics
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and decided to sell SYSTAT to Cranes Software in
Bangalore
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,
India
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. Cranes formed Systat Software, Inc. to market and distribute SYSTAT in the US, and a number of other divisions for global distribution. The headquarters are in
Chicago, Illinois
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By 2005, SYSTAT was in its eleventh version having a revamped codebase completely changed from
Fortran into
C++
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. Version 13 came out in 2009, with improvements in the user interface and several new features.
See also
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Comparison of statistical packages
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General information
Operating system support
ANOVA
Support for various ANOVA methods
Regression
Support for various Regression an ...
*
PeakFit
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PeakFit automatically finds and fits up to 100 peaks to a data set, at a time, enabling ...
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TableCurve 2D
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TableCurve 3D
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References
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External links
SYSTATas told by
Wilkinson Wilkinson may refer to:
People
* Wilkinson (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
Places in the United States
* Wilkinson, Illinois
* Wilkinson, Indiana, a town in Hancock County
* Wilkinson, Minnesota
* Wilkinson, Mis ...
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