Salstat is a
free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, n ...
application for the statistical analysis of numeric data with an emphasis on ease-of-use. Using both a
graphical user interface
The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, ins ...
and
command line interface, it can perform all sorts of analyses including descriptive statistics and a range of inferential tests (both parametric and nonparametric). It is written in the
Python language and works on any platform that supports Python,
NumPy,
SciPy, and
wxPython. In June 2012, it had received at leas
38,000 downloadsfrom it
Sourceforgesite and spawned a 'son-of' program called Salstat Statistics Package 2. Some of the code was adopted by the PCMDI program for climate analysis and CDAT,
both linked t
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
Current status
The most recent release was in 2003 but it is being updated by Mark Livingstone.
References
Free statistical software
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