(Systat Software Inc.: Chicago) -- Systat Software Inc., a developer and supplier of award-winning scientific software and services, has launched MYSTAT 12, a freely downloadable statistical analysis software package designed specifically for use by students and the teaching community.

MYSTAT 12, which has many of the core statistical functions available in the SYSTAT 12 product, contains standard statistical and graphical functionality, as well as teaching aids such as random sampling and a probability calculator.

While it contains statistical and graphical features related to topics that are generally covered in undergraduate-level and beginning graduate-level statistics-related courses, it also includes advanced functions not normally found in introductory statistics packages, such as the loglinear model, as well as logit, probit, and nonlinear regression. MYSTAT can accept a maximum of 100 variables with no limit on the number of cases.

The program, available at www.systat.com/products/mystat, will be of immense help to students in any course that involves quantitative analysis, including psychology, social sciences, biology, economics, and market research.

“MYSTAT includes a vast majority of the powerful statistical functionality found in the SYSTAT software package,” says Leland Wilkinson, Ph.D., executive vice president, Systat Software and inventor of the original SYSTAT product. “With so many newly emerging applications for statistical analysis, there has never been a more important time to provide students and professors free access to the resources they need to promote research and prepare the next generation of the global workforce. We hope MYSTAT plays a key role in global academic achievement.”

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