Software Reviews : FAKAD Reviewed by Stuart Bretschneider,Syracuse University Publisher: K. I. Macdonald,Nuffield College,Oxford,OX1 1NF,England Year of Publication: 1985 Materials: Two program diskettes,one 136-page manual Price: £28 (approximately $45)Availability: IBM PC,XT,AT,or clone machines using MS-DOS 2.1 or higher operating systems System Requirements: 256K memory and two diskette drives;one hard disk and one diskette drive A version optimized for systems with an intel 8087 chip is also available Effectiveness: Excellent User-Friendliness: Average Documentation: Good

Abstract

FAKAD is a command-oriented statistical package for regression analysis, principle components, two- and three-way cross-tabulated table analysis, scattergrams, correlations, and Monte Carlo simulations. FAKAD also does simple univariate statistical analysis and has a very powerful data-manipulation component. Many other more sophisticated forms of statistical analysis are possible with FAKAD's powerful macro-language facility.