Salstat is a

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application for the statistical analysis of numeric data with an emphasis on ease-of-use. Using both a

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and

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, it can perform all sorts of analyses including descriptive statistics and a range of inferential tests (both parametric and nonparametric). It is written in the

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language and works on any platform that supports Python,

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, and

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. In June 2012, it had received at leas
38,000 downloads
from it
Sourceforge
site and spawned a 'son-of' program called Salstat Statistics Package 2. Some of the code was adopted by the PCMDI program for climate analysis and CDAT, both linked t
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories

Current status

The most recent release was in 2003 but it is being updated by Mark Livingstone.

References

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