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University of Vermont News

• MINITAB in Campus Labs: New License File Available
• Updated SPSS license authorization codes available
• NOD32 Antivirus virus signature database update resulted in unresponsive computers
• BSAD Senior Project looks at ETS Help Services
• SCAM WARNING: "Verify and Update Your UVM Email"

Quick links

• Statistical Consulting Clinic (SCC)
• Request for Assistance by the SCC
• UVM Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
• SAS Institute, Inc.
• SPSS, Inc.
• Minitab, Inc.
• Insightful Corp. (S-Plus)
• Stata Corp.
• GraphPad Software
• JMP Software
• e-academy Inc.
• American Statistical Association
• StatLib (at Carnegie Mellon U.)
• Statistics and Statistical Graphics Resources
• Raynald's SPSS Tools
• SAS Version 8 Documentation Online
• SAS Version 9 Documentation Online
• New Hampshire Vermont SAS Users Group

Statistical Software Support and Consulting

Academic Computing Services provides support for statistical software to the UVM community, as well as general statistical consulting. This service is provided by Alan Howard (M.S. Biostatistics, 1980), who has been serving users of statistical software at UVM since 1986.

Currently supported statistical software includes:

Supported Operating Systems

	Unix	Windows	Mac OS
SAS
SPSS
Minitab
S-PLUS
Stata
GraphPad Prism
JMP

Note: UVM does not have a site license for JMP, but support is provided to those who have purchased or rented JMP on their own. JMP can be purchased from jmp.com or rented from e-academy.com (see "Quick Links" to the right).

Statistical therapy is provided in the following areas:

• experimental design
• selection of appropriate statistical methodology
• assistance with power and sample size calculations
• interpretation of results of analyses
• assistance in responding to reviewers' comments
• installation/licensing of above software packages
• programming assistance in these packages
• instruction in the use of these packages
• troubleshooting programming errors

Topics of interest to users of statistical software

Stat News	New info and changes concerning statistical software.
SAS licensing info	Updates to the SAS System license codes. You must have a UVM NetID and password to access this area.
SPSS licensing info	Obtain annual license/authorization codes for SPSS. You must have a UVM NetID and password to access this area.
Stat FAQS	Answers to some frequently asked questions concerning statistical software.
Site Licensed Statistical Software	Information on the statistical software that is site-licensed by ETS, including price info, system requirements and recommendations, and how to obtain this software for your system.
Running SAS and SPSS	A quick overview of how to run each of these statistical packages on the academic system, zoo.uvm.edu.

Last modified July 21 2008 10:02 AM