Statistics for Academics and Research at NAU

Academic and Research System Administration (ARSA)in ITS supports a number of statistical programs running on a select number of platforms. The platforms include Unix, Microsoft Windows, and the Macintosh. ARSA also supports a secure analytics server named Adams and also a REDCap electronic data capture server(s).

Research Specific Information

• Accessing the Adams Secure Analytic Server

• Accessing the REDCap servers

Site Licenses

NAU currently maintains three site licenses for statistical packages that may be used by faculty, staff, and students for non-commercial, Academic or Academic Research use only.

These programs may be acquired for individual use or lab use. For help with installing the software on University owned machines, call the Solution Center at 928-523-1511 and request help from Desktop Support.

For information on self registering for SPSS/PASW click here (access is only from the NAU domain or if logged into the NAU VPN).

For information on self registering for JMP click here (access is only from the NAU domain or if logged into the NAU VPN).

SAS now provides a free University Edition of SAS that may be used by Faculty, staff, and students. For information on this please go to the SAS University Edition page.

The yearly license for the statistical packages runs from July 1st to the end of the next June. During July the new licenses come in and when they are available they are reflected in the chart below. SPSS has a 30 day grace period, JMP a 60 day grace period, and SAS has a 90 day grace period.

Current Versions:

NOTE: SPSS for the Mac will only run on intel based Macs, not the earlier powerpc systems. New authorization codes will be available once we obtain them from IBM. The latest two versions of the software are available on the NAUSHARES share as outlined in the registration email that is sent after self-registration for SPSS.

General Information

Academic Computing also provides programming libraries that you may use for building custom applications.  These libraries are to be used at your own risk.  For information on the libraries click here.

If you have any questions regarding statistical processing at NAU, call the ITS help desk at 523-1511.

Stats on Windows

Academic Computing supports three packages under Windows: SAS, JMP and SPSS.

Stats on the Mac

Academic Computing also supports SPSS and JMP on the Macintosh platform.

Free SPSS Clone

GNU has a free replacement for SPSS available under the GNU software license. For more information on the PSPP program go to http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html

Documentation

A number of documents are available to help with your statistical processing. These will be amended and added to over time.

HTML Documents

• Installing JMP

• Updating your JMP License

• Updating your SPSS License

• SAS Knowledge Base: Documentation

• Acessing MS-Access and Excel files in SAS

• Accessing Oracle Tables from SAS

• Accessing MySQL Tables from SAS

• SAS Hotfixes

• Editing Raw Data (ASCII) files

• SPSS Docs from SPSS, INC (for NAU only)

• SPSS feature comparison

• Using Stats packages on VDESK

• SPSS

• SPSS Academic Resource Center

• SAS on Monsoon

• SAS on the Mac

• SAS on VDESK

Data Sets

ITS currently houses the ICPSR General Social Survey datasets for 1972-1993. This data is available in PC format (zip files). If you would like the data and extraction program in DOS format you may click here.

Patches

You should stay up to date on SPSS or SAS patches. These patches fix bugs or other problems with the statistical packages. Simply click on the link(s) below to download the patch or hotfix.

• register at SPSS.com to obtain patches for the SPSS/PASW software.

Links to Other Sites

• Raynald's SPSS Tools

Maintained by Academic Computing.  Last modified 10-Jul-2017.