Software packages for statistical analyses 

The following software programmes are useful for the analysis of quantitative data. Some of them offer free demo versions for download or student versions, which are sometimes restricted to a certain number of variables or cases. Please help to complete the list by sending your suggestins to the webmaster! 

SPSS - Software Package for the Social Sciences - now available in Version 17 for PC and Macintosh

AMOS - can be purchased together with SPSS, which makes working with both programmes easier
            (your institution might provide you with licenses for both)

SAS

LISREL - great to use for Structural Equation Modeling AND with a free Student Version

HLM - also with a free Student Version

MPLUS - free downloadable trial version, Student Version reduced in price AND great help ressources on                 the website; great for multilevel modelling and latent growth curve modelling

MLwiN - Multilevel Modelling, FREE if you are affiliated with an institution in the UK

G-Power - a free and general Power Analysis programme

R - completely free and very useful for various sorts of analyses

 

Other helpful ressources

Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods

Hyperstat Online Statistics Textbook

Andy Field's Statistics Hell

The European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences