SYSTAT is a statistics and statistical graphics

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package, developed by

Leland Wilkinson Leland Wilkinson (November 5, 1944 – December 10, 2021) was an American statistician and computer scientist at H2O.ai and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago. Wilkinson developed the SYSTAT statistical ...

in the late 1970s, who was at the time an

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of psychology at the

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. Systat Software Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and grew to over 50 employees. In 1995, SYSTAT was sold to

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, who marketed the product to a scientific audience under the SPSS Science division. By 2002, SPSS had changed its focus to

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and decided to sell SYSTAT to Cranes Software in

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. Cranes formed Systat Software, Inc. to market and distribute SYSTAT in the US, and a number of other divisions for global distribution. The headquarters are in

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. By 2005, SYSTAT was in its eleventh version having a revamped codebase completely changed from Fortran into C++. Version 13 came out in 2009, with improvements in the user interface and several new features.

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