The

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Statistical Lab (Statistiklabor) is an explorative and interactive toolbox for

statistical Statistics (from German: ''Statistik'', "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industria ...

analysis and visualization of data. It supports educational applications of

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and

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. The program is developed and constantly advanced by the Center for Digital Systems of the

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. Their website states that the source code is available to private users under the

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. So if a commercial user wishes to obtain a copy, then they must do so indirectly, from a private user who already has a copy (any of their employees will do). Simple or complex statistical problems can be simulated, edited and solved individually with the Statistical Lab. It can be extended by using external libraries. Via these libraries, it can also be adapted to individual and local demands like specific target groups. The versatile graphical diagrams allow demonstrative visualization of underlying data. The Statistical Lab is the successor of Statistik interaktiv!. In contrast to the commercial

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the Statistical Lab is didactically driven. It is focused on providing facilities for users with little statistical experience. It combines data frames, contingency tables, random numbers, matrices in a user friendly virtual worksheet. This worksheet allows users to explore the possibilities of calculations, analysis, simulations and manipulation of data. For mathematical calculations, the Statistical Lab uses the R package, which is a free implementation of the language S Plus (originally developed by

Bell Laboratories Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

References

* *{{cite journal , last=Kladroba , title=E-learning in der Statistik – Ein Vergleich verschiedener Lernsoftwareangebote , journal=Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv , volume=90 , issue=2 , year=2006 , pages=323–340 , language=de , doi=10.1007/s10182-006-0236-y

External links

Homepage of the Statistical Lab
- in English
Statistical Lab Tutorial for newbies
- English versions available
forum for Statistical Lab users
- bilingual English and German
Tigris.org Source-Code of the Statistical Lab
(discontinued, source-code now available in the download-area of the main pages

Homepage of the Center for Digital Systems
Statistical software Windows-only freeware

See also

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