Mac statistics software

• General statistics software
• Graphing, data visualization, modeling
• Time series analysis
• Data extraction (from scanned graphs)
• Specialty stats and survey software
• The dead zone: abandonware

Macintosh statistical software reviews

• SPSS • Stata • JMP
• GraphPad Prism • StatPlus:Mac 5.3.5

Key Mac stats links and resources

• Statistics jokes
• Mac computers in research
• Mac issues and news (Macintouch)
• The creator of MacStats, Joel West

Site News

• Already at version 1.2! Wizard, a fast, exciting Mac stats app
• Stay tuned for new Stata and JMP reviews (really)

Mac statistics software notes

Wizard is now featured at the Mac App Store.

Wizard is the latest in a number of new Mac statistics programs that have brought back some of the flavor of the exciting 1990s, when SPSS brought mainframe power to the Mac, JMP revolutionized exploratory graphics, MacANOVA made analysis fast and easy, and CricketGraph had fast, easy graphing (with near-instant polynomial curve fitting) — all running at 8 MHz on a 4-meg Mac Plus.

Now, we’re seeing a steady influx of new software from small developers (as well as JMP, Stata, and SPSS), and the PSPP “SPSS clone” project ever so slowly coming along to bring SPSS to those without unlimited budgets.

Origins of MacStats

Joel West worked on this site from 1996 through 2005, then passed over stewardship to David Zatz in 2005.