Statistical Lab
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 The Statistical Lab (Statistiklabor) |
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| Developer: | Freie Universität Berlin |
| Latest release: | 3.5 / 2006 |
| OS: | Windows XP, Windows 2000 |
| Use: | Statistical analysis |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | [1] |
The computer program Statistical Lab (Statistiklabor) is an explorative and interactive toolbox for statistical analysis and visualization of data. Thru this clearness approach and by a lot of functions it supports education in the field of statistics in business sciences, economics, social sciences and humanities. The program is developed and constantly advanced by the Center for Digital Systems of the Free University of Berlin. On september, 11th 2006 the new version 3.5 has been released as Free software. The source-code is available for non-commercial purposes under the GPL.
Simple or complex statistical problems can be simulated, edited and solved individually with the Statistical Lab. It can be extended by using external libraries. Via these libraries also adaption to individual and local demands like specific target groups can be realized. The versatile graphical diagrams allow demonstrative visualization of underlieing data.
The Statistical Lab is the successor of Statistik interaktiv!. In contrast to the commercial SPSS the Statistical Lab is didactical driven. In the first place it focusses statistical newbies. It combines data frames, contingency tables, random numbers, matrices in a user friendly virtual worksheet. This worksheet allows users to explore playfully the possibilities of calculations, analysis, simulations and manipulation of data.
For mathematical calculations the Statistical Lab uses the Engine R, which is a free implementation of the language S Plus (originally developed by Bell Laboratories). The R-Project is constantly beeing improved by worldwide community of Developers.
[edit] References
- Schlittgen: Das Statistiklabor - Einführung und Benutzerhandbuch, Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2005, ISBN 3-540-22389-4 (german only)
- Kladroba: E-learning in der Statistik - Ein Vergleich verschiedener Lernsoftwareangebote, Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv Band 90/2 (2006), S. 323 - 340 (german only)
[edit] External Links
- Homepage of the Statistical Lab - in english
- Statistical Lab Tutorial for newbies - english versions available
- forum for Statistical Lab users - bilingual english and german
- Tigris.org Source-Code of the Statistical Lab (discontinued, source-code now available in the download-area of the main pages: [2])
- Homepage of the R-Project
- Homepage of the Center for Digital Systems
