Open Source SAS AlternativesStatistical Analyzers and other similar apps like SAS

The best open source alternative to SAS is R (programming language). If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to SAS and 15 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to SAS are JASP, PyPI, Polars and jamovi.

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  1. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be consider.

    102 R (programming language) alternatives

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    JASP is a free and open-source graphical program for statistical analysis supported by the University of Amsterdam. It is designed to be easy to use, and familiar to users of SPSS. It offers standard analysis procedures in both their classical and Bayesian form.

    34 JASP alternatives

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    • Flathub
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  3. PyPI icon
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    The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language. PyPI helps you find and install software developed and shared by the Python community. Package authors use PyPI to distribute their software.

    55 PyPI alternatives

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  4. Polars icon
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    Polars is a highly performant DataFrame library for manipulating structured data. The core is written in Rust, but the library is also available in Python. Its key features are:

    18 Polars alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
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  5. jamovi icon
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    jamovi is a free and open statistical platform which is intuitive to use, and can provide the latest developments in statistics.

    22 jamovi alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Flathub
    • Online
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  6. pandas icon
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    Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more.

    18 pandas alternatives

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  7. Report generation + report bursting + self-service portal + embeddable analytics. All in one platform. Self-hosted.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
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  8. SharpDevelop Reports (SDR) is the open source .NET reporting solution shipping with SharpDevelop. SDR supports Windows (WPF or Windows Forms) as well as Web (ASP.NET) applications thanks to its ability to use printers or output directly to PDF.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  9. Stan icon
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    Stan is a probabilistic programming language for data analysis, enabling automatic inference for a large class of statistical models.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Python
    • R (programming language)
    • Julia
    • MATLAB
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  10. MonteCarlito is a free Excel-add-in to do Monte-Carlo-simulations. Apart from these it can also do statistical analysis like mean, median, standard error, variance, skewness, kurtosis. It can create histograms. The code is open source.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Microsoft Office Excel
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  11. BioSciTools icon
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    BioSciTools (Bioinformatics Science Tools), a desktop program developed based on Java 11, aims to make new exploration and contribution to the development of bioinformatics, and realize data analysis and visualization in the fields of sequence analysis, multi-omics...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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  12. Colombian Report Designer (CRD) is a report solution like Jasper Report, Crystal Reports or FastReport, but based on Javascript framework. It can be easily used with any CrossPlatform application.

    100% Javascript Report Designer and Preview Print..

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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