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Statistics

Academic Computing supports a number of statistical programs running on a select number of platforms. The platforms include Unix, Microsoft Windows, and the Macintosh.

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 ITS Software Store. SPSS has a 30 day grace period and SAS has a 90 day grace period.

Current Versions:

Product Version License Period Covered
SPSS 20 2012-2013
SAS 9.2 2012-2013
JMP 10 2012-2013

NOTE: SPSS for the Mac will only run on intel based Macs. Not the earlier powerpc systems. License period will be updated each year as soon as the new license is available. SPSS 21 is now available for testing on campus. It is available on the NAUSHARES share as outlined in the registration email that is sent after self-registration for SPSS.

Site Licenses

NAU currently has three site licenses for statistical packages that may be installed on faculty, staff and departmental machines. If you are interested in either a SAS, JMP or SPSS license please click here. These programs may be acquired for individual use or lab use. Students may purchase SPSS through the NAU Bookstore or any other academic software outlet.

Students may also acquire stats packages for use on their personal machines. NAU offers SAS for student use on the campus license. If students require the use of SPSS for their classes, they may either use SPSS on Jan, Dana, or on one of the ITS lab machines. If you require the program for your personal computer click here . For information on self registering for SPSS/PASW click here (access is only from the NAU domain or if logged into the NAU VPN).

General Information

Academic Computing also assists in survey processing and Faculty evaluation processing. ITS is able to supply (for a nominal charge) scan forms that you may employ in your survey based research. This will allow you to have the answers computer tabulated instead of doing manual entry. The data may then be used with the various statistical packages at NAU.

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

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.

Links to Other Sites


Maintained by Academic Computing.  Last modified 11-Jul-2011.