ATLAS/ti
- Description: Qualitative Coding. ATLAS.ti is a powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data. It offers a variety of tools for accomplishing the tasks associated with any systematic approach to "soft" data--i.e., material which cannot be analyzed by formal, statistical approaches in meaningful ways.
- Availability: ATLAS/ti is available for installation on any workstation directly connected to the School of Nursing local network. We currently own a five-workstation simultaneous user network-only license. That means that many people can have installed icons, but only five people can be running at the same time. At the present time, our license agreements prohibit installation of the ATLAS/ti software on laptops intended for usage that is disconnected from the School network. ATLAS/ti can be used by faculty, staff, postdocs, students, and official visitors to the School.
- Installation: tier@uw.edu
- Links: http://www.atlasti.com
EQS
- Description: Structural Equation Modeling. EQS for Windows is one of the most widely used Structural Equation Modeling programs, known for its ease of use and powerful features. Users can draw a path diagram using EQS' drawing tool to create your model, and use the most advanced statistics to correctly treat non-normal data. EQS for Windows features friendly data handling and statistical preprocessing.
- Availability: Available on SoN network
- Installation: tier@uw.edu
- Links: http://www.mvsoft.com/
Hierarchical Linear and Nonlinear Modeling (HLM)
- Description: Hierarchical linear modeling of data that can be considered to have structure at 2 or 3 levels. The HLM program can fit models to outcome variables that generate a linear model with explanatory variables that account for variations at each level, utilizing variables specified at each level. HLM not only estimates model coefficients at each level, but it also predicts the random effects associated with each sampling unit at every level. While commonly used in education research due to the prevalence of hierarchical structures in data from this field, it is suitable for use with data from any research field that have a hierarchical structure. This includes longitudinal analysis, in which an individual's repeated measurements can be nested within the individuals being studied. In addition, although the examples above implies that members of this hierarchy at any of the levels are nested exclusively within a member at a higher level, HLM can also provide for a situation where membership is not necessarily "nested", but "crossed", as is the case when a student may have been a member of various classrooms during the duration of a study period.
- Availability: Network license: HLM icon can be installed on any workstation in the School, although only 4 people can be running the program at the same time.
- Installation: tier@uw.edu
- Links: http://www.ssicentral.com/hlm/index.html
LISREL
- Description: Structural Equation Modeling. LISREL software is no longer limited to SEM. It is a comprehensive data analysis application, which also includes statistical methods such as linear and nonlinear multilevel modeling (hierarchical linear modeling), generalized linear modeling, univariate and multivariate censored regression and formal inference-based recursive modeling. Many of these statistical methods are also available for the analysis of complex survey data. These and future developments in the LISREL software are intended to provide researchers with an analytic tool that is at the cutting edge of the statistical methodology for analyzing multivariate data.
- Availability: Network license: LISREL icon can be installed on any workstation in the School, although only 4 (?) people can be running the program at the same time.
- Installation: tier@uw.edu
- Links: http://www.ssicentral.com/lisrel/index.html
Mathematica
- Description: Complex Equations, Non-Stochastic Simulation. Mathematica is a very large sophisticated software suite for symbolic, numeric, and graphical computations and visualization. In our environment it is predominantly used by people to solve complex equations, or to do non-stochastic simulation of the behavior of complex systems.
- Availability: The UW College of Engineering has an omnibus site license (currently valid through 6/2011) - extendable to all departments and units on the main UW campus, under which individual copies of Mathematica may be installed on individual University-owned workstations at no charge. However, each copy must be registered with Mathematica.
- Installation: http://www.washington.edu/itconnect/wares/uware/
- Links: http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/introduction.html
MatLab
Mplus
- Description: Modeling. Mplus is a statistical modeling program that provides researchers with a flexible, state-of-the-art combination of linear mixed models and latent variable models tool to analyze their data. Mplus offers researchers a wide choice of models, estimators, and algorithms in a program that has an easy-to-use interface and graphical displays of data and analysis results. Mplus allows the analysis of both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, single-level and multilevel data, and data that come from different populations with either observed or unobserved heterogeneity. Analyses can be carried out for observed variables that are continuous, censored, binary, ordered categorical (ordinal), unordered categorical (nominal), counts, or combinations of these variable types. Mplus also has special features for missing data, complex sample data, and multilevel data. In addition, Mplus has extensive capabilities for Monte Carlo simulation studies, where data can be generated and analyzed according to any of the models included in the program.
- Availability: Single copy on Research Office library computer. We were having trouble getting M-plus to work with non-administrative accounts, but TIER may have solved this problem recently.
- Links: http://www.statmodel.com/features.shtml
Nudist
SPSS
- Description: General Statistical Analysis. With SPSS, you can generate decision-making information quickly using powerful statistics, understand and effectively present your results with high-quality tabular and graphical output, and share your results with others using a variety of reporting methods, including secure Web publishing. Results from your data analysis enable you to make smarter decisions more quickly by uncovering key facts, patterns, and trends.
- Availability: Versions 14 & 15
- Installation: tier@uw.edu
- Links: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/
SPSS SamplePower
- Description: Sample Size and Power. Statistical power and precision analysis - usually used in planning empirical research studies. SamplePower helps you find the best sample size for your research. You can compare the effects of different study parameters with the flexible analytical tools.
- Availability: Available on license server via TIER
- Installation: tier@uw.edu
- Links: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/spss-samplepower
STAT Transfer
- Description: Data Transfer. To convert statistical data files between different formats used by the different programs (SPSS, STATA, SAS, Excel, Access, etc.).
- Availability: Contact TIER.
- Installation: tier@uw.edu
- Links: http://www.stattransfer.com/
STATA
- Description: Data Analysis. STATA puts hundreds of statistical tools at your fingertips, from advanced techniques, such as survival models with frailty, dynamic panel data (DPD) regressions, generalized estimating equations (GEE), models with sample selection, ARCH, and estimation with complex survey samples; to linear and generalized linear models (GLM), regressions with count or binary outcomes, ANOVA/MANOVA, ARIMA, cluster analysis, standardization of rates, and case control analysis; to basic tabulations and summary statistics.
- Availability: STATA 9.2 is now available on both SON and SONNET machines
- Installation: tier@uw.edu
- Links: http://www.stata.com/products/overview.html
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