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	How to obtain annual license/authorization codes for SPSS.
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 September 22 2008 02:34 PM