SOFA Statistics is an

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statistical package. The name stands for ''S''tatistics ''O''pen ''F''or ''A''ll. It has a

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and can connect directly to

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, MS Access (map), and

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. Data can also be imported from CSV and Tab-Separated files or spreadsheets (

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, OpenOffice.org Calc, Gumeric,

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). The main statistical tests available are Independent and Paired t-tests, Wilcoxon signed ranks, Mann–Whitney U, Pearson's chi squared, Kruskal Wallis H, one-way ANOVA, Spearman's R, and Pearson's R. Nested tables can be produced with row and column percentages, totals, standard deviation,

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, median, lower and upper quartiles, and sum. Installation packages are available for several

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s such as Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu,

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, Linux Mint, and

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(Leopard upwards). SOFA Statistics is written in Python, and the

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used is WxPython. The statistical analyses are based on functions available through the SciPy stats module.

Statistics Features - Workflows

Users are guided through the selection of the appropriate basic statistical methods and assignment of the basic statistical on the table column of the data that should be analyzed. The features available within SOFA for statistical analysis are limited compared to those found in Open Source R Statistics Software, which contains a large repository of statistics packages.

References

External links

SOFA Statistics Homepage
* SOFA Statistics project page at Source Forge
SOFA Statistics project page at LaunchpadSOFA Statistics page at Show Me Do
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Statistics Features - Workflows

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