Research Guides: CMU Library Research Data Collection and Services: 5. Data Analysis Tools, Data Journals

CMU Statistical Software and Resources

Minitab

Minitab is a statistics package for data analysis. It is available to CMU current students and employees (faculty and staff members), but requires new access request per semester used. If required for courses, instructors must submit requests for their entire class

NVivo

NVivo is the premier software for qualitative data analysis. You can use it through a request on CMU Virtual Lab.

Qualtrics

CMU has Qualtrics that can be used for both quantitative and qualitative data analysis. You can sign in with your CMU ID/password via this page https://www.qualtrics.com/academic-solutions/central-michigan-university-institutional-research-center/.

SPSS

You can activate / install SPSS at https://cmich.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/664/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=20330

Stata

The site license makes Stata (MP 2-core) available for use on all CMU faculty, staff and student systems. Install Stata on CMU owned computers at https://cmich.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/664/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=37373

SPSS SAS SAP Minitab NVivo RStudio Virtual Lab

You can access SAS, SPSS, SAP, Minitab, NVivo, RStudio on Window PCs in CMU Park Library. Check library open hours.

R: The R Project for Statistical Computing is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

Evidence Synthesis Hackathon apps that can be used for systematic reviews / met-analysis

CMU SPSS (PASW) On-Line Training Workshop This on-line workshop assumes no previous knowledge of SPSS. This online workshop is based on SPSS 16.0.

ICPSR A Guide to Interpreting SPSS Output - How to interpret frequency distributions, crosstabulations, comparison of means tests, correlations, and OLS regressions done in SPSS. Used in teaching undergraduate Introduction to Statistics course

CMU Statistical Consulting Center