Satview 5.0-Student Version

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Summary: No missing features or cripled functions
Review: STATVIEW is one of the more popular statistical programs used in business and scientific applications, and the only difference between this student version and the professional version is the licensing. The student version has all of the features and capabilities, but you are restricted by legal terms and conditions of the license from using it outside of the academic environment. This is also an ethical issue.

What it contains: a comprehensive suite of descriptive statistical, statistical process control capabilities, regression, analysis of variance, factor analysis and non-parametric test functions are built in. The power and ease of use comes from the innovative user interface, data management and reporting features. In particular, the user interface stands out as my favorite feature because of its simplicity and power. It contains two types of windows, dataset and view, which accounts for its simplicity, and interactive browsers that allow you to access and data and apply analytical functions that account for the power. The dataset window is similar to a spreadsheet, and the plethora of functions allow you to perform any common (and many less common) analyses. You can also analyze more than one dataset in a single analysis, and you can save the work as a template to save time for similar analyses. Results can either be displayed in tabular or graphical format at literally a click of your mouse. The preview feature allows you play 'what if' in the same manner as spreadsheets, by changing data or parameters, seeing the changes. Page layout is powerful and flexible, which is something one expects from a professional tool, but not in a student version.

If you are a student and qualify for the license terms and conditions STATVIEW is a bargain and a time saver. In addition to getting a tool that will make short work of statistical analyses regardless of whether you're majoring in social sciences, business or technology, you'll be learning the same software that you'll probably use after graduation because SAS Institute, the publisher, is one of the most respected names in statistical software.