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).
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:
|
Product |
Version |
License Period Covered |
|
SPSS |
30 |
2024-2025 |
|
SAS on the Monsoon Cluster and VDESK |
9.4 |
2024-2025 |
|
JMP |
18 |
2024-2025 |
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.
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.
Academic Computing supports three packages under Windows: SAS, JMP and SPSS.
Academic Computing also supports SPSS and JMP on the Macintosh platform.
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
A number of documents are available to help with your statistical processing. These will be amended and added to over time.
HTML Documents
Please open a ticket with the help desk if you need assistance with JMP Licensing.
The ticket should go to the ACDC team.
The license renewal process is changing and we are handling requests individually until the new process has been finalized.
SAS Knowledge Base: Documentation
Acessing MS-Access and Excel files in SAS
Accessing Oracle Tables from SAS
Accessing MySQL Tables from SAS
Editing Raw Data (ASCII) files
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.
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.
Maintained by Academic Computing. Last modified
10-Jul-2017.