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STATISTICA
Developer(s)StatSoft
Stable release
10.0 (32-/64-bit)[1] / November 2010
Operating systemWindows
Typenumerical analysis
LicenseProprietary software
Websitewww.statsoft.com

Statistica (trademarked in capitals as STATISTICA) is a statistics and analytics software package developed by StatSoft. Statistica provides data analysis, data management, data mining, and data visualization procedures. Statistica product categories include Enterprise (for use across a site or organization), Web-Based (for use with a server and web browser), Concurrent Network Desktop, and Single-User Desktop.

History

‘STATISTICA’ originally derives from a set of software packages and add-ons that were initially developed during the Mid 1980's by StatSoft. Following the 1986 release of CSS (Complete Statistical System)and the 1988 release of MacSS (Macintosh Statistical System), the first DOS version of Statistica (trademarked in capitals as STATISTICA) was released in 1991. In 1992, the Macintosh version of Statistica was released.

STATISTICA 5.0, was released in 1995 which automatically configured itself for new 32-bit Windows 95/NT or the older version of Windows (3.1) and featured a large number of new statistics and graphics procedures, a word-processor-style output editor of unlimited capacity (combining tables and graphs), and a built-in professional development environment that enabled the user to easily design new procedures (e.g., via the included, comprehensive STATISTICA Basic language) and integrate them with the STATISTICA system.

STATISTICA 5.1 was released in 1996 followed by STATISTICA '97 and STATISTICA '98 editions.

In 2001, STATISTICA 6 was based on the COM architecture and high-end technologies (such as multithreading and support for distributed computing).

STATISTICA 9 was released in 2009, supporting 32 bit and 64-bit computing.

The currently latest release of STATISTICA is STATISTICA 10 (release was announced in November 2010). This release features further performance optimizations for the 64-bit CPU architecture, as well as advanced multithreading technologies, integration with Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft Office 2010 and other applications, the ability to generate Java and C# code, and other GUI and kernel improvements.[2]

Localized versions of STATISTICA (including the entire STATISTICA family of products) are available in Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified), Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. STATISTICA documentation is available in Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and other languages.

Overview

STATISTICA is a suite of analytics software products and solutions provided by StatSoft. The software includes an array of data analysis, data management, data visualization, and data mining procedures; as well as a variety of predictive modeling, clustering, classification, and exploratory techniques.[3] Additional techniques are available through integration with the free, open source R programming environment.[4][5]

Different packages of analytical techniques are available in six product lines: (1) Desktop, (2) Data Mining, (3) Enterprise, (4) Web-Based, (5) Connectivity and Data Integration Solutions, and (6) Power Solutions. [6]

According to Rexer's Annual Data Miner Survey in 2010: [7]

  • STATISTICA Data Miner along with IBM SPSS Modeler and R) received the strongest satisfaction ratings as a data mining tool in both 2010 and 2009; moreover, it was rated as the primary data mining tool chosen most often (18%).
  • STATISTICA Text Miner was rated as the top used text mining software (19%).

Graphics

Statistica includes analytic and exploratory graphs in addition to standard 2- and 3-dimensional graphs. Brushing actions (interactive labeling, marking, and data exclusion) allow for investigation of outliers and exploratory data analysis.

User interface

Operation of the software typically involves loading a table of data and applying statistical functions from pull-down menus or (in versions starting from 9.0) from the ribbon bar. The menus then prompt for the variables to be included and the type of analysis required. It is not necessary to type command prompts. Each analysis may include graphical or tabular output and is stored in a separate workbook.


See also

References

  1. ^ "STATISTICA 10 has been Released!"
  2. ^ "STATISTICA 10 New Features"
  3. ^ STATISTICA Product Overview http://www.statsoft.com/products/
  4. ^ Christian H. Weiss "Commercial meets Open Source: Tuning STATISTICA with R" R-Project. March 2008.
  5. ^ "StatSoft Certifies REvolution Computing R Language" HPCwire. December 2008.
  6. ^ STATISTICA Product Overview http://www.statsoft.com/products/
  7. ^ Karl Rexer, Heather Allen, & Paul Gearan (2010) 2010 Data Miner Survey Summary, presented at Predictive Analytics World, Oct. 2010.

Further reading

  • Afifi, A. (2003). Computer-Aided Multivariate Analysis. New York: CRC Press. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Hill, T., and Lewicki, P. (2007). STATISTICS Methods and Applications. Tulsa, OK: StatSoft. WEB: http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/
  • Nisbet, R., Elder, J., and Miner, G. (2009). Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications. Burlington, MA: Academic Press (Elsevier).
  • Sá, Joaquim (2007). Applied Statistics Using Spss, Statistica, Matlab and R. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3540719717.
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