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If you have any of this software already and want to run it, try using a Mac OS emulator such as Basilisk, SheepShaver, or vMac. Without an emulator, almost none of these programs can be run on a current (or any) Intel-based Mac, and some won’t run under OS X, or even System 9.
| Package | Compatiblity, last version | Notes |
| AppleTree | 68020, PPC; v. 1.34 |
Free program for fitting multinomial binary tree models to frequency data; it can read model files and data files written for the MS-DOS "MBT" program. We can't find it now. |
| BuildSim | 68K, PPC; v 2.0 |
BuildSim is a system design, simulation and analysis package available both in free and commercial versions. It was developed by Tritera but we can't find their site or software now. |
| BMDP | ? | Purchased by SPSS; Mac version dropped; sold by SPSS; don’t we love SPSS? |
| Cricket Graph | 68K; v. 1.32 and III | Cricket Graph 1.32 still works on PowerPC machines via Classic mode. It remains one of the easiest to use graphing programs ever designed, and has extremely fast regression curve fitting that is easy to set up with polynomial designs. Cricket Graph III is harder to use but more flexible. Never fear: CricketGraph files can now be read by DataGraph (see our graphing page). |
| Data Loom | PowerPC | Data Loom is a free data visualization program for multivariate data by Carl Manaster. |
| FloStat | 68K; v2.0 | Last updated around 2000, FloStat provided basic analysis. Though not updated in the 21st Century, it is published by Senecio Software. |
| GLMstat | PowerPC OS 9, X v. 6.0 |
GLMStat is a $25 shareware package for generalized linear models with a graphic suer interface. Features include spreadsheet-style data entry, a large variety of plots and diagrams, descriptive and other statistics, and saving of model specifications. Downloads and registration are at the GLMStat web page. The program is still available but development was dropped around 2005 with no possibility for Intel versions. |
| LISREL | PPC; v. 8.7 | LISREL ("LInear Structural RELations") was developed by Karl Jöreskog and Dag Sörbom; for many years, LISREL was synonymous with structural equation modeling. Version 8.7 was available for $445 in early 2006, with OS X and OS 8/9 compatibility; when we checked again in June 2008, all mentions of Mac versions were gone. |
| MacCATI | v 2.5 | Last updated around 2000, MacCati is no longer shown on Senecio Software’s index page. It was designed for web- and self-administered surveys, and runs in Java. |
| MacCurveFit | 68K, PPC; v. 1.5.5 |
MacCurveFit fits a regression curve to any user defined function using least squares. It is listed as being compatible with System 7. The site says: "MacCurveFit is a scientific least squares curve fitting program. Data sets can be entered into a spreadsheet window, imported from programs like Excel or extracted from text files. Any function may then be fitted to the data and the fit displayed graphically. The functions can be defined by typing them as text and so the program is very flexible. There is also a choice of mathematical algorithms that can be used for curve fitting." |
| MacSpin | 68K: v3.1d3 | MacSpin is three-dimensional data visualization program that was the first such program for the Macintosh (and perhaps any personal computer). It is available as freeware from Donoho Design Group. |
| MathCAD | “Classic” | This is a general purpose math program that was never brought up to OS X. The link for “platforms” on their site leads to various flavors of Windows. |
| Minitab | 68K, PPC; v.10 | Minitab is a general-purpose statistics package mostly used in education; Minitab confirmed that development would stop in 1997. |
| SAS | PPC; v.6.12 | SAS is a general-purpose statistics package distributed by SAS Institute Inc. SAS is supposed to work well in Classic but we have not tested it. SAS announced that there will be no Mac updates. |
| Statistica | 68K; 4.1 | StatSoft program; development appears to have stopped in 1997. As of May 2007, it was still listed for sale on their web site. Caveat emptor, indeed! |
| STATsimple | 68K; 2.05 | $25 shareware that provides descriptive stats, histogram plot, student’s t-test and linear regression, developed by Chris Pereira. The fully functional (i.e., registered) version supports a 25x200 data matrix. |
| StatView | 68K, PPC; v5 | Oh, how we miss StatView from Abacus Concepts! SAS bought the company and then dropped support in 2003. StatView was very fast, provided many statistical operations, and was easy to use, but did not have a syntax language. It was similar to SuperANOVA. |
| SuperANOVA | 68K | See StatView description... |
| Systat | 68K; v5.21 | Another program dropped when SPSS Inc. bought it. SPSS later sold MyStat and SyStat to Cranes of India, which does not sell a Mac version of SyStat - which would be a rather difficult development process, since, as a former SPSS employee wrote, “most of the developers that helped build the back end are in no way connected with the present company.” |
| ViSta | 68K, PPC; v. 5.6 | Free program by Forrest Young of UNC, still available (thanks, Sherm Garrison!) from this web site but has not apparently been updated since 1999. The source code is available for anyone who wants to bring it into the 21st Century! |
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