Stata Alternatives

Stata is described as 'Data Analysis and Statistical Software for Professionals' and is a statistical analyzer in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Stata for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Microsoft Excel apps. The best Stata alternative is R (programming language), which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Stata are RStudio, PSPP, JASP and IBM SPSS Statistics.

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    Mplus is a statistical modeling program that provides researchers with a flexible tool to analyze their data. Mplus offers researchers a wide choice of models, estimators, and algorithms in a program that has an easy-to-use interface and graphical displays of data and analysis...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Very cheap software (you pay for a three year licence) and very easy to use, as it is based on a spreadsheet. Indeed, it is possible to copy and paste data between Excel and StatsDirect. Also, for those who are not well-versed in statistics, there is an inexpensive book by Cole...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    WinBUGS is statistical software for Bayesian analysis using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. It is based on the BUGS (Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling). It runs under Microsoft Windows, though it can also be run on Linux using Wine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Sigma Magic Software - Excel Data Analysis Software for Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, DFSS, Statistical Analysis, Graphical Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulations

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    SolidSheets offers a user-friendly interface and powerful features to manage and analyze your data. Easily open, edit, and print CSV, SSFS/SSFS64, and XLSX files. With advanced formulas, charts, and machine learning algorithms, accelerate your workflow.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Number Analytics is an web based statistical software for academics and market research supporting various types of data (SPSS, Excel, CSV, STATA, Minitab, SAS) and platforms (iOS, Android, and Web).

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
     
    • Number Analytics is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Stata.

    • Number Analytics is Paid and ProprietaryStata is also Paid and Proprietary
    • Number Analytics is LightweightStata is not according to our users
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    Established in 2008, and headquartered in Chicago, Spider Financial provides analytical and statistical software tools and services for securities trading, risk management, and financial operations. Our core mission is to enhance Microsoft Excel’s analytical capabilities with...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. For novice to expert market researchers, Q quickly turns survey data into smart insights, beautiful visualizations and clever reports, using the most advanced analysis techniques. Use menus or code to do the most advanced analyses; while smart systems and automated...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
     
  10. Nucleon BI Studio (Business Intelligence Studio) is a powerful and innovative business intelligence and data analysis software for the Oracle, IBM DB2, IBM Informix, IBM Netezza, Ingres, MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, FireBird, SQLite, MS Access, MS FoxPro, dBASE, EffiProz...

    21 Nucleon BI Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. SAFE TOOLBOXES is an Excel add-in that enhances Excel capabilities to perform simulations, actuarial, financial and econometrics tasks within Microsoft Excel.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Reshape.XL icon
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    Reshape.XL in an Excel add-in for data processing. With this add-in you can clean, complete, reshape, wrangle, summarize, edit, subset, select, format, separate, unite, pivot, unpivot, combine your data that are messy, incomplete, contain many records and variables.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
     
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