Various statistical manuals, guidebooks and software CDs can be accessed at the EBOH computer lab, located in the basement of Purvis Hall. EBOH students may borrow the software CDs to bring home for installation.
McGill University provides students with free access to several software packages, including SAS, EndNote and Reference Manager. Visit the McGill IT Knowledge Base to see the full list of software and installation instructions.
R
Also known as the R Project for Statistical Computing, R is free!
Download and install
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
Learn
Quick-R is a blog run by Dr. Robert I. Kabacoff. It contains good examples and is very useful for learning R.
The UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education provides free resources for learning R.
STATA
STATA is not free.
Download and install
STATA may be purchased from the official site at STATA.com.
Learn
The UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education provides excellent free resources for learning STATA.
STATA provides a listing of further resources. Their support guide for graphics is particularly useful. They also have a good blog.
SAS
SAS is not free, but McGill provides access to students, faculty and staff.
Download and install
SAS.com
McGill students, faculty and staff can download and install SAS from the McGill IT Knowledge Base.
Learn
The Department of Psychology at York University's SAS Information Guides provide a useful introduction to SAS. See in particular the SAS Program Steps document, which provides "an overview of SAS procedures and SAS programming statements."
The UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education's SAS website provides tools such as the SAS Starter Kit, various examples for performing statistical analyses on SAS, and it is also completely searchable, allowing users to look for SAS tips and guides that fit their learning needs.
SPSS
SPSS is not free.
Download and install
SPSS.com
Learn
Raynald's SPSS Tools provides useful codes and techniques to increase productivity of all level of SPSS users. Raynald Levesque, the creator of the website, wrote "most of the 675+ sample syntax, macros and scripts included in this site... The site includes FAQ and Tips pages, a Newbie's Corner, links to free online SPSS Tutorials and more... There is also a section to support the book SPSS Programming and Data Management," which may be downloaded for free.
The UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education provides free resources for learning and using SPSS.
Other software and online calculators
OpenEpi is a website that "provides statistics for counts and measurements in descriptive and analytic studies, stratified analysis with exact confidence limits, matched pair and person-time analysis, sample size and power calculations, random numbers, sensitivity, specificity and other evaluation statistics, R x C tables, chi-square for dose-response, and links to other useful sites. OpenEpi is free and open source software for epidemiologic statistics."
CDC's Epi Info allows "epidemiologists and other public health and medical professionals [to] rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data. Epidemiologic statistics, tables, graphs, and maps are produced with simple commands such as READ, FREQ, LIST, TABLES, GRAPH, and MAP. Epi Map displays geographic maps with data from Epi Info." Epi Info can be used to perform basic epidemiologic functions like logistic regressions and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis.
"The WINPEPI (PEPI-for-Windows) computer programs for epidemiologists are designed for use in practice and research in the health field and as learning or teaching aids. They aim to complement other statistics packages. The programs are free, and can be downloaded from the Internet."
StatPages contains over 600 links to pages with tutorials and information about statistics, including 380 pages that performal statistical calculations. "The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources. All of these resources arfreely accessible."
Dr. Madhukar Pai's list of Freely Available Epidemiologic Software, Calculators, and Useful Websites [pdf].