Academic Computing supports a number of statistical programs running on a
select number of platforms. The platforms include Unix, Microsoft Windows,
and the Macintosh. For news about stats on campus you may click here.
Site Licenses
NAU currently has two site licenses for statistical packages that may be
installed
on faculty, staff and departmental machines. If you are interested in either
a SAS or SPSS license please click here.
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 three statistical packages:
BMDP (BMDP is no longer supported by SPSS and is minimally supported
by ITS)
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 clickhere.
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.
SPSS 15 for Vista Hotfix: you
must apply the license code again after applying the hotfix.
