AcaStat description
AcaStat - data analysis, statistics, and interactive educational tool

AcaStat - designed to help students learn and apply practical analytical skills, but also ideal for those who need a low-cost alternative for producing basic summary statistics at school or work.

Conduct statistical analyses and prepare descriptive summary reports. Create and analyze crosstabulations, descriptive statistics, and basic significance tests.

AcaStat is a statistics tool that helps you to analyse data.

Create data files with AcaStat or import from spreadsheets, data tables, or statistical software. Includes the Research Methods Handbook with formulas and interpretation examples.

AcaStat helps users learn and apply the basics without purchasing an expensive full-featured statistical package.

Includes a user manual in pdf format for easy printing or for quick-click reference while using the software. Built for high school and university statistics courses, used by professionals as a practical desk-top tool.

Here are some key features of "AcaStat":

· Create confidence intervals and conduct statistical tests using summary statistics such as means, counts, and proportions. As an example, create confidence intervals for means with just a mean, standard deviation, and count (sample size).
· Conduct significance tests such as t-tests, ANOVA, difference of proportions, and Chi-Square with summary measures. Check hand calculations or results presented in reports.
· Use counts to estimate diagnostic accuracy measures such as sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and likelihood ratios.
· Each analysis in the SumStats module includes an interpretation of the results.
· Click the copy button in SumStats and paste the entire results and summary statistics you entered into a word processor. Or simply press the print button to print the output.
· Help Windows
· Context sensitive help window is instantly available that is displayed alongside the current module.
· Every statistical procedure displays a quick tip help window to help you choose and use the appropriate technique.
· Research Methods Handbook
· Every procedure in AcaStat is supported with an instructional aid. AcaStat includes a hypertext statistics handbook with examples of hypothesis testing, equations, and easy to understand examples.
· Active links from the help window and the SumStats module connect to relevant topics in the self-contained statistics handbook.
· Statistics Glossary
· Expandable statistics glossary that contains over one-hundred definitions and is searchable.
· Add or edit definitions or create your own glossary file for school, project notes, or statistical output.
· DataCalc Module
· Create measures of diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity, specificity, AUC)
· Easily export data to MS Excel and output to MS Word with a click of a button.
· Split data files without writing program code.
· Run single and mutiple random sampling procedures with the click of a button.
· Copy and paste delimited data in seconds from documents or spreadsheets using the import module.
· Store project notes in the DataCalc data file.
· Academic Support
· Free academic site licenses for computer labs and classroom use.
· Extremely low price bands for both retail and academic users.
· Free Student Workbook is available for user self-instruction.


Requirements:

· 700mhz Pentium
· 128mb RAM
· Internet Explorer 4+


Limitations:

· 30 records; 20 variables