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FOR 10 YEARS, STATVIEW has been the leading general statistical package for the Macintosh, and with this latest release, it enters the Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 fray. I'm happy to say that Stat View 4.54 acquits itself quite well amid some fierce and established competition, such as SPSS' Systat and SPSS for Windows as well as StatSoft's Statistica.
Although StatView's statistical analyses and graphs are merely average, it surpasses all other packages in its flexibility to report results. On this alone, Stat View makes itself indispensable.
I tested StatView running under Windows 95, but the product is also certified to run under Windows NT 4.0. Even Windows 3.1 can run StatView using Microsoft's Win32s software (a copy of which is included) but without such features as long file names.
StatView is organized in typical statistical software fashion. There's a central spreadsheet, which I used as the springboard for data exploration, manipulation, charting, and analysis.
The product provides a good selection of functions and logical operations for transforming variables, making new ones, or selecting cases conditionally. I appreciated the simple way that StatView let me pick subsets or variables for analysis as well as conduct analyses of subgroups of my data.
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