SPSS Inc. Delivers Enhanced Analysis and Reporting Capabilities to Scientific Researchers with Launch of SigmaStat 3.0.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2003 Latest version of SigmaStat complements award-winning SigmaPlot(R) technical graphics software SPSS A statistical package from SPSS, Inc., Chicago (www.spss.com) that runs on PCs, most mainframes and minis and is used extensively in marketing research. It provides over 50 statistical processes, including regression analysis, correlation and analysis of variance. Inc., a global provider of predictive analytics Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of techniques from statistics and data mining that process current and historical data in order to make “predictions” about future events. technology and services, today announced the general availability of SigmaStat 3.0, a statistical software package that enables users to perform effective and accurate statistical analysis and interpretation without being a statistics expert. Scientific researchers are continually asked to publish their results as research papers or reports. For the thousands of researchers using SPSS Inc.'s SigmaPlot graphing software in industries such as life sciences, medical research, pharmacology, chemistry and environmental sciences, SigmaStat offers users access to the most common statistics required in research without requiring advanced statistical knowledge. SigmaStat is unique in the marketplace because of its ability to guide users step-by-step through analysis, from picking the appropriate technique, to checking assumptions in the data, to reporting the results in plain-English. Used together, SigmaStat and SigmaPlot offer a comprehensive and easy to use toolkit for statistics, curve-fitting and regression and publication-quality graphics and reports. "SigmaStat's ease-of-use makes it an ideal solution for non-statisticians to conduct statistical analyses of research data," said Dr. Robert Darmody, professor of pedology pedology A branch of soil science focusing on the formation, morphology, and classification of soils as bodies within the natural landscape. Pedology seeks to understand how the properties and distribution patterns of soils worldwide (collectively called the pedosphere) have , Department of Natural Resources Many sub-national governments have a Department of Natural Resources or similarly-named organization:
For current SigmaStat users, the latest release of SigmaStat provides a critical link to SigmaPlot, which enables: -- Access to SigmaPlot files in SigmaStat; access to SigmaStat files in SigmaPlot (requires latest versions) -- Access to SigmaPlot's advanced graph-editing features, including: -- SigmaPlot's graph properties dialog, for modifying any object in the graph -- SigmaPlot 8.0's new toolbar palettes, which allow users to selectively edit objects such as bars or lines or individual points in a scatterplot, or allow the editing of multiple items simultaneously -- SigmaPlot 8.0's new text formatting toolbar, which enables on-page text editing SigmaStat 3.0 also includes significant new or upgraded features, including: -- Survival analysis using Kaplan-Meier (product limit) method to estimate the survival function of subjects followed over time, such as cancer studies. Survival curve options include error bars, confidence intervals, display censored cen·sor n. 1. A person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable. 2. or failure values, color schemes -- New report page with improved page and keyboard controls; ability to export reports to .HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. or .PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. formats -- New data worksheet with more flexibility to work with larger data sets -- Improvements in graphing data such as new data format options, automatic graph legends and more symbols -- Windows(R) 2000/XP support and the ability to import MS Access and SPSS files "For those conducting clinical, medical or environmental research, the ability to quickly and clearly make sense of data sets is critical to finding discoveries and taking action," said Ken Kirsten, senior product manager, SPSS science products. "SigmaStat empowers these researchers with the analytics that enable them to make predictions without advanced statistical knowledge." "I have used SigmaStat since it was originally created. It is extremely intuitive and it is simple to interface directly with data from spreadsheets, and integrates its output nicely with SigmaPlot for the display of results," said Dr. James H. Jones James Henry Jones (September 13, 1830 - March 22, 1904) was a U.S. Representative from Texas. Born in Shelby County, Alabama, Jones moved with his parents to Talladega County, Alabama, in early youth. He pursued an academic course. He studied law. , professor of comparative physiology Comparative physiology is a subdiscipline of physiology that studies and exploits the diversity of functional characteristics of various kinds of organisms. It is closely related to evolutionary physiology and environmental physiology. , Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences at the School of Veterinary Medicine veterinary medicine, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of animals. An early interest in animal diseases is found in ancient Greek writings on medicine. Veterinary medicine began to achieve the stature of a science with the organization of the first school in the , University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). . "It is particularly useful for students with relatively little background in statistics because it provides helpful interpretation of findings and consideration of assumptions that underlie many statistical tests." Pricing and availability The North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. commercial list price for SigmaStat 3.0 is US$599. Existing SigmaStat users may upgrade for US$199. For customers purchasing SigmaStat 3.0 as a bundle with an upgrade to SigmaPlot 8.02 from version 5 or below, the price is US$399. For customers purchasing SigmaStat 3.0 as a bundle with an upgrade to SigmaPlot 8.02 from version 6 or higher, the price is US$349. A variety of pricing programs, including special academic pricing, aggressive multiple unit pricing unit pricing n. The pricing of goods on the basis of cost per unit of measure. and site and network licensing are available. Both SigmaStat and SigmaPlot can be purchased on the Web at either the SPSS online software store at www.spss.com/store or at the SPSS science products online store at www.spssscience.com/buy.cfm. The software is also available for purchase over the phone at 800-543-2185. For more information, please visit www.sigmastat.com. About SPSS Inc. SPSS Inc. (Nasdaq: SPSS) headquartered in Chicago, IL, USA, is a multinational computer software company providing technology that transforms data into insight through the use of predictive analytics and other data mining techniques. The company's solutions and products enable organizations to manage the future by learning from the past, understanding the present, as well as predicting potential problems and opportunities. For more information, visit www.spss.com. SPSS information is available on the World Wide Web through the SPSS Press Center at: www.spss.com/press |
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