__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 ( Excel,

SPSS SPSS Statistics is a statistical software suite developed by IBM for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, and criminal investigation. Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was acquired by IBM in 2009. C ...

, CSV, ...). MedCalc includes basic parametric and non-parametric statistical procedures and graphs such as descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Mann–Whitney test, Wilcoxon test, χ² test, correlation,

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 ...

as well as non-linear regression,

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 combination of one or more independent variables. In regression an ...

, 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 haza ...

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

Bland–Altman plot A Bland–Altman plot (difference plot) in analytical chemistry or biomedicine is a method of data plotting used in analyzing the agreement between two different assays. It is identical to a Tukey mean-difference plot, the name by which it ...

, as well as Deming and Passing–Bablok regression. 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 m ...

and sample size calculations. The first DOS 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.” ''

Clinical Chemistry Clinical chemistry (also known as chemical pathology, clinical biochemistry or medical biochemistry) is the area of chemistry that is generally concerned with analysis of bodily fluids for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. It is an applied ...

'' 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

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