Salstat Statistics
Friendly, free data analysis
Making statistics friendlier
Analysing statistics can be hard. We work at learning how to use a program when we should be analysing data. Salstat wants to change this.
Years of experience teaching undergraduates and postgraduates struggling to analyse experimental statistics on computer has showed us how programs should work with people not despite them.
We want people to analyse data with ease through friendly software that augments the way we need to work.
Why use Salstat?
- Lots of descriptives
- Salstat has, for example, 9 forms of quantile along with a full range of parametric and nonparametric tests. See a full list of descriptive statistics here.
- Lots of inferential tests
- From basic 1 sample tests to advanced multi-sample tests.
- It's open source
- You can examine the source code yourself if you're unhappy with whether a test works
What can I use Salstat for?
Salstat is useful whenever you need to crunch numbers into something manageable. Salstat has been used in these industries:
- Business and commerce
- Website analytics, business intelligence, marketing, finance
- Sciences
- Agriculture, biology, medicine, biostatistics, psychology/psychometrics
- Social sciences
- Economics, sociology, politics, social policy, education
- Research and development
- Product development, market research, analytics, process management techniques like Six Sigma
Who uses Salstat?
Salstat is used across the world. See some peer-reviewed papers...
What types of inferential analyses does Salstat do?
- Parametric
- t-test (1 sample)
- t-test for two samples (within and between subjects)
- Univariate ANOVA (within and between subjects)
- Linear regression
- F-test
- Nonparametric
- Sign test
- Chi square
- Kolmogorov-Smirnov
- Mann-Whitney U
- Wilcoxon sign-ranks
- Wilcoxon rank-sums
- Kruskal-Wallis
- Friedman
Show me what charts Salstat can do?
Here are some examples:
Column & bar charts
Box & whisker plots
Histograms
Line & area charts
What file formats can Salstat import from?
Salstat was designed to be as friendly as possible. Without being an enterprise-funded project, we are limited in what we can do. But what we can do, we do as well as we possibly can. Salstat can import:
- CSV/txt
- Comma Separated Values, often in text format. We're on the path for Salstat to adhere to RFC 4180.
- XLS/XLSX
- Microsoft's Excel format can be imported. You can select which worksheet to import.
- ODS
- LibreOffice Calc's spreadsheet format can be imported in the same way as XLS/XLSX.
- SAS
- From version 8 onwards, Salstat does a great job of import SAS format.
- HTML
- Salstat can take a HTML file and extract tables of data directly into Salstat - and even from live web pages just by entering the URL. You can select which table to import.
What operating systems?
Windows, Macintosh OS X and Linux