Do you need help getting started with statistical software, basic analysis, or visualization?
Contact our Libraries' team at stat-help@mit.edu.
We can help with data cleaning, preparation, descriptive statistics, and visualization in a variety of statistical software. However, we do not make decisions about how you should analyze your data.
Need more advanced help with study design, methodology, or programming?
Make an appointment with a data scientist at Harvard IQSS.
3 hours of help are provided per project and consultations are free for MIT affiliates. Help is not provided for coursework. Harvard data scientists will also collaborate on select research projects for a fee.
IQSS also offers workshops for MIT affiliates throughout the year. See our Libraries' Events schedule for upcoming workshops.
All statistical software below can perform common statistical tests and save commands to and run commands from a syntax file.
Software | Strengths | Weaknesses | Interface | MIT Access |
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R |
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command line | Athena or free download |
SAS |
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command line | Athena (This is the UNIX version, which can be difficult to use) |
Stata |
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GUI, command line | Athena, GIS lab computers, purchase through IS&T |
SPSS |
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GUI | free for faculty and staff through IS&T |
JMP |
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GUI | free for teaching and research through IS&T |
Minitab |
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GUI | installed on GIS & Data Lab computers in Rotch Library (7-238) |