Statistics
Academic Computing supports a number of statistical programs running on a
select number of platforms. The platforms include Unix, Microsoft Windows,
and the Macintosh.
Site Licenses
NAU currently has three site licenses for statistical packages that may be
installed
on faculty, staff and departmental machines. If you are interested in either
a SAS, JMP or SPSS license please click here. These programs may be acquired for individual use or lab use.
Students may also acquire stats packages for use on their personal
machines. NAU offers SAS for student use on the campus license. If
students require the use of SPSS for their classes, they may either use
SPSS on Jan, Dana, or on one of the ITS lab machines. If you require the
program for your personal computer click here
.
General Information
Academic Computing also assists in survey processing
and Faculty evaluation processing. ITS is able
to supply (for a nominal charge) scan forms that you may employ in your survey
based research. This will allow you to have the answers computer tabulated
instead of doing manual entry. The data may then be used with the various
statistical packages at NAU.
If you are interested in joining a mailing list devoted to the use of Stats
at NAU please click here.
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.
Stats on Unix
Academic Computing currently supports two statistical packages:
All of these packages are available on Dana and Jan. The programs may be run
in batch mode or as an X application for
Windows or the Mac.
Stats on Windows
Academic Computing supports three packages under Windows: SAS, JMP and SPSS.
Stats on the Mac
Academic Computing also supports SPSS and JMP on the Macintosh platform.
Documentation
A number of documents are available to help with your statistical processing.
These will be amended and added to over time.
HTML Documents
Data Sets
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.
Patches
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.
Links to Other Sites
Maintained by Academic Computing. Last modified 5-Sep-2006.
