Software Reviews : Stat 1Publisher: Sugar Mill Software Corp.,1180 Kika Place,Kailua,HI 96734 (telephone: [phone]) Year of Publication: 1985 Materials: One program diskette,one data diskette,264-page manual Price: $129.95 professional rate;$500.00 unlimited machine lab installation;individual student version (will save only 100 cases) $29.95;extra copies of the manual $15.95 Machine Specificity: IBM PC,XT,or AT or 99% compatible PC-DOS or MS-DOS machines System requirements: 256K memory and either two floppy disk drives or one floppy and one hard disk drive. Effectiveness: Good User-Friendliness: Excellent Documentation: Excellent

Abstract

STAT 1 is a menu-driven statistical package that contains excellent data management software including a full-screen editor for entering data, documentation about data, or detailed labels for variables or values. The package allows for extensive data manipulations, and includes descriptive statistics, histograms, scatter-grams, contingency table analysis, parametric and non-parametric difference in means testing, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, ANOVA, MANOVA, and smallest space analysis, a form of multidimensional scaling.