Cheap or free statistics software to do the basic stuff

[Adel Makram]

I am looking for a software that enable me to do the basic data analysis like ANOVA, regression, factor analysis and to do nice graphing. I need something similar to SPSS with data entry in the form of variables no coding input like SAS.

 

[FactChecker]

Probably the leader in free statistical packages is R. It is well established and documented and is widely used. There is a learning curve. I'm not sure what you mean about the data entry. It is fairly easy to read a CSV file with variable names coming from the first line header in the CSV file.

 

[jedishrfu]

An alternative to R is Julia which can also interoperable with R.

Www.julialang.org

 

[Adel Makram]

How about AMOS. I found a free download here http://en.freedownloadmanager.org/Windows-PC/IBM-SPSS-Amos.html. Does this program have similar features to SPSS?

 

[FactChecker]

I haven't used it but I think that AMOS is an extension to be used with SPSS; not stand-alone. There is a free download for a 15-day trial, but after that expires it is not free.