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“By integrating the WebSTATISTICATM engine into the eStudy solution, we now are positioned to not only deliver a full palette of statistical analyses and visualizations of biological study data without leaving the security of the product, but we also have the ability to respond to the specific needs for custom analyses for individual clients,” said Larry Laws, V.P. of Sales and Marketing for iAdvantage.
STATISTICA is a fully web-based statistical analysis and visualization engine used globally at industryleading life science companies. iAdvantage eStudy v5.0 integrates this engine seamlessly within the product so that the user is not only shielded from the complexities of learning a full statistical solution, but also is presented with the types of statistics and visualizations specific to their job function. Because eStudy users are not forced to export data to third party applications for analysis, validation of the solution is a much simpler process.
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"The capabilities of STATISTICA Data Miner immediately impressed and convinced us. Also, price/performance is fantastic! Effective service rounds out this positive experience. The partnership with StatSoft is professional and rewarding," said Jochen Hahn, Managing Director at argonauten360°.
A recent case study illustrates an example of one of argonauten360°'s innovative projects using STATISTICA Data Miner for its analyses. With a powerful data mining application including several regression functions for modeling long-term trends and a self-learning ARIMA component, argonauten360° found the accuracy of forecasted minutes of airtime to be improved dramatically, while the error rate was cut in half.
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These software solutions will be based on the integration of Caterpillar's patent-pending analytic processes into the industry-leading suite of STATISTICA enterprise analytics software. StatSoft will market and support the solutions, beginning in late 2004 or early 2005.
"This partnership will combine and leverage the world-class know-how of Caterpillar for creating and implementing efficient and high-quality solutions for manufacturing and logistics, with StatSoft's cutting-edge, open-architecture STATISTICA enterprise software technologies and predictive analytics," says Dr. Thomas Hill, Vice President of Product Development at StatSoft.
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In his recent article "How to Choose a Data Mining Suite", Dr. Robert A. Nisbet reviews five popular data mining suites to help companies evaluate which suite is best for their particular needs, including STATISTICA Data Miner, SPSS-Clementine, Affinium Model, Insightful Miner, and KXEN.
The article contains an extremely detailed comparison of procedures and features of these five products on over 100 dimensions (with a detailed table reproduced in the article), concluded with the final composite scores. STATISTICA Data Miner has received a total score of 1,147 (almost two times higher than its closest competitor, SPSS Clementine).
| Product | Total Score |
| StatSoft STATISTICA Data Miner | 1,147 |
| SPSS Clementine | 641 |
| Insightful Miner | 565 |
| Affinium Model | 474 |
| KXEN | 562 |
Referring to his comprehensive table showing a weighted comparison of the features and functions of the different tools, Dr. Nisbet notes that by comparing the relatively moderate cost and the weighted score across all features and functions, STATISTICA Data Miner is "the clear winner" and is "in a class by itself". He goes on to state that "no data mining suite available today provides more tools for performing data mining projects" and proclaims STATISTICA Data Miner as his "personal favorite" among the tools he evaluated.
Dr. Nisbet lists the pros of STATISTICA Data Miner, including "the richest combination of parametric statistical and machine learning data mining algorithms", "highly flexible tools for model output", "powerful tools for reduction of dimensionality", and "scalability (STATISTICA Data Miner can more rapidly process larger data sets both in terms of their dimensionality and the overall size than the other products)".
Dr. Nisbet has over 30 years experience in complex systems analysis and modeling as a Research Professor (University of California, Santa Barbara) and as consultant in data mining sciences. While at NCR Corporation and Torrent Systems, he pioneered the design and development of configurable data mining applications for retail sales forecasting, and Churn, Propensity-to-buy, and Customer Acquisition in Telecommunications and Insurance.
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KLA-Tencor, a world leader in yield management and process control solutions, and StatSoft, Inc., one of the largest producers of statistics and analytic graphics software in the world, recently announced a new partnership to bring advanced data mining and statistical decision-making technology to the semiconductor and related industries.
The partnership combines StatSoft's robust tools for Data Mining and Design of Experiments (DOE) with KLA-Tencor's ACE XP software for optimizing yield management to uniquely address complex issues, resulting in new technology and sophistication that has never before been available.
StatSoft has worked with KLA-Tencor to integrate its Data Mining software for uncovering hidden trends, explaining known patterns, and predicting the future, and its experimental design techniques (based on more than 16 years of experience in the quality control industry) with KLA industry knowledge.
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Data filtration and analysis time are reduced at Solar Turbines with the remote monitoring and diagnostics program's centralized database, in which data is automatically filtered and trending and assessment are automated with a rule-based diagnostic software program. Engine operations are monitored live via the Web and automated engineering reports are generated daily and delivered electronically to Solar Turbines' secure Web site, in which multiple users have different access privileges.
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Designed to meet even the most demanding data integration and knowledge extraction needs, STATISTICA Data Warehouse is the solid foundation for your entire, enterprise-wide business intelligence system. STATISTICA Data Warehouse is a complete, powerful, scalable, and customizable system for intelligent management of unlimited amounts of data, distributed across unlimited numbers of locations worldwide. Click here for more information on STATISTICA Data Warehouse. |
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Manage any electronic documents quickly, efficiently, and securely with STATISTICA Document Management System, a complete, flexible, unlimited capacity database solution package. STATISTICA Document Management System provides productivity-enhancing management of local or Web-based document repositories, distributed across unlimited numbers of locations worldwide (FDA/ISO compliant). Click here for more information on STATISTICA Document Management System. |
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StatSoft's new STATISTICA Text Miner (an optional extension of STATISTICA Data Miner) is ideal for turning unstructured text data into meaningful, valuable clusters by accessing, processing, and analyzing documents.
STATISTICA Text Miner is fully integrated into the STATISTICA line of software and features the most comprehensive and powerful tools on the market, implemented with uncompromising attention to efficiency and scalability, and employing multi-threaded computing technology to extract optimum performance from advanced multiple-processor server hardware.
STATISTICA Text Miner may be used to analyze the contents of Web pages, analyze large document repositories, include unstructured notes in predictive data mining projects, and much more.
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StatSoft's WebSTATISTICA Knowledge Portal incorporates the latest Internet technology and includes a powerful, flexible report generation tool and a secure system for information delivery, enabling colleagues, employees, and/or customers (with appropriate permissions) to log in and quickly and efficiently get access to the information they need, by reviewing predefined reports (optionally organized into structured repositories).
With WebSTATISTICA Knowledge Portal's tools, you can post up-to-date, highly customized reports, charts, and tables on the Internet automatically, virtually in real-time, and without any knowledge of HTML or Java programming languages.
StatSoft's WebSTATISTICA Interactive Knowledge Portal offers to the portal visitors all the functionality of the Knowledge Portal and additionally options to define and request new reports, run queries and custom analyses, drill down and up, and slice/dice data, and gain insight from all resources that are made available to them by the portal designers or administrators.
Knowledge Portal can be integrated with other WebSTATISTICA applications, including STATISTICA Document Management System.
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A review in the February 2003 issue of DM Review describes how STATISTICA Data Miner's impressive array of data mining algorithms solved a variety of classification and prediction problems for Oklahoma State University graduate IT students.
STATISTICA Data Miner was the "premier choice" for OSU's Department of Management Science and Information Systems, according to Dr. Dursun Delen, Assistant Professor. Delen states, "Based on my years of experience in industry and in academia, I can confidently say that STATISTICA Data Miner has one of the most comprehensive data mining algorithms on the market." He also calls the graphical tools and their outputs "phenomenal."
Delen lists many other advantages over other data mining tools, including a graphical, interactive, user-friendly interface, rich set of visualization tools, processing speed, and its ability to be launched as a Web application. In spite of these many strengths, Delen also found STATISTICA Data Miner to be "less expensive than other comprehensive toolkits in the market."
OSU students used STATISTICA Data Miner for the prediction of diabetic illnesses based on demographic, social and recreational parameters; target marketing models for better promotional mailing; prediction of financial indicators such as the S&P 500; and foreign exchange rates, among others.
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In a recent announcement by StatSoft Scandinavia AB, the Swedish Intensive Care Register (SIR) named WebSTATISTICA its main business on-line reporting and data analysis tool for accessing and analyzing centrally stored data. SIR is a non-profit organization that simplifies the follow-up of intensive care at two-thirds of the intensive care wards in Sweden. The announcement means that clinics connected with SIR will now get access to the comprehensive statistical analysis tools in STATISTICA via the Internet (see WebSTATISTICA). SIR chose STATISTICA over a variety of other packages for its user-friendly interface, wide selection of basic and advanced statistical tools, and facilities for Internet enablement.
WebSTATISTICA Server is a general, virtually platform-independent, Web-enablement environment for all other STATISTICA applications. This ultimate enterprise system offers the ability to run all STATISTICA applications interactively or in batch from a Web browser on any computer (including Linux, UNIX), and offload time consuming tasks to the servers (using super-computer-like distributed/parallel processing), integrate with databases, manage projects over the Web, and collaborate "across the hall or across continents." A custom Web-application development kit is also available.
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 | Featuring a variety of introductory and advanced training courses in major U.S. cities, StatSoft training classes offer:
In addition to a two day course on the Introduction to STATISTICA, StatSoft offers one day training for SPC, DOE, Multivariate Analysis, Anova/Regression, Neural Networks, Graphical Data Analysis, Visual Basic applications, and Six Sigma Statistics. Sign up today to enhance your knowledge and understanding of STATISTICA tools!
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StatSoft's STATISTICA Enterprise-wide SPC System (SEWSS) was recently featured as a "Quality Application" in the September 2002 issue of Quality Digest. The Case Study describes the successful SEWSS implementation in the basic division at Steelcase Inc., a company that produces interior architectural products worldwide.
The case study describes how Steelcase was able to improve process control for automatic die presses and manual press brakes and quickly identify that measurement error was a key source of variation using the Interactive QC Charts module of SEWSS. After switching from caliper measurment to a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), a team at Steelcase worked with StatSoft technical support so that the data collected by the CMM would be directly output into the SEWSS database and the latest data is always available for quick analysis with any of the SEWSS modules. Now, machine operators using the shop-floor CMM for inspection receive immediate feedback on the quality of key part features, and engineers have real-time access to the CMM inspection data for solving problems, making continuous improvements and verifying ongoing capability.
According to Mike Linde, quality engineer at Steelcase, "The enterprise-wide nature of the software makes it easy to share data for collaborative problem solving. Current data is available for review almost anywhere. Real-time charts and reports can be reviewed on the shop floor, at an engineers's desk or at a team meeting."
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Felix Grant, a well-known lecturer and reviewer in the UK, recently commented on the latest versions (version 6) of STATISTICA QC Charts, Data Miner, and Neural Networks in a software review published in the September issue of Quality Digest magazine.
In the review, Grant remarks on STATISTICA QC Chart's to handle large data sets, multiple databases, and real-time auto-updating saying, "There must be limits to the density and variability of data flow, but I've not yet discovered them -- despite some very demanding work that would make most software packages cry."
In the same review, Grant calls STATISTICA Data Miner "the best tool I’ve seen yet for actually applying what you learn at the sharp end of industry" and "the easiest to use data mining control I’ve encountered." He goes on to praise its friendly user interface and strong set of exploratory analytic routines.
Lastly, the reviewer addresses STATISTICA Neural Networks. Although admittedly tentative when it comes to using nn software, Grant finds that STATISTICA Neural Networks has "particular strengths for unfamiliar users and those with reporting or team working priorities."
Grant summarizes,"These new additions to the STATISTICA 6 product range take traditional quality further, make it more accessible, and introduce a new level of integration that yield considerable synergy payoffs. If you have unsolved analytical problems, try STATISTICA 6."
To read the complete review go to the Quality Digest Web site.
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StatSoft has combined the complete functionality of its quality control and improvement software with its cutting-edge STATISTICA Data Miner software for uncovering hidden trends, explaining known patterns, and predicting the future. All quality control charts, process capability analyses, experimental design procedures, and Six Sigma methods and charts are integrated with a comprehensive library of cutting-edge techniques for exploratory and predictive data mining. The result is STATISTICA QC Miner, a powerful software solution designed to monitor processes, identify and anticipate problems related to quality control and improvement with unmatched sensitivity and effectiveness.
STATISTICA QC Miner enables its users to:
Powerful Client-Server versions designed to rapidly process extremely large streams of data (using multithreading and distributed processing that can scale to batteries of servers), RDE (Rapid Deployment Engine), and Web-based versions are available. StatSoft offers also a selection of Deployment, Consulting, and Training services.
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StatSoft recently announced the release of STATISTICA Neural Networks version 6, the ultimate data mining, exploration and modeling tool for users who analyze complex relationships between variables. STATISTICA Neural Networks 6 offers the most comprehensive selection of neural network architectures, algorithms, sampling methods and analytical graphs on the market. Intelligent problem solvers and automatic wizards make the program intuitive and among the easiest on the market to use. STATISTICA Neural Networks 6 seamlessly integrates with STATISTICA 6, the revolutionary new generation of the highest rated data analysis and visualization software, STATISTICA.
Click here for a list of new features in STATISTICA Neural Networks.p> Read the STATISTICA Neural Networks 6 News Release.
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A case study in the April 2002 issue of Quality magazine describes how Steelcase, a leading office furniture manufacturer, recently achieved unprecedented quality gains using StatSoft's popular enterprise-wide SPC software, SEWSS. According to Steelcase, the decision to purchase SEWSS was part of an enterprise-wide initiative to standardize statistical software as a process improvement tool.
One of Steelcase's objectives in this initiative was to lower the average millage (paint thickness) needed to meet customer requirements, and reduce the variation in the application of paint. A project team used SEWSS to evaluate the state of three existing paint lines, two powder coat operations and a liquid line at the Office Systems plant. When the data from film thickness gages showed significant variation in paint millage, various SEWSS tools were used to identify the sources of the variation and help develop process improvements.
The project was deemed "a tremendous success," said Paul Dzwonek, quality engineer for Steelcase's Office Systems plant in Grand Rapids. Average paint millage on one powder coat line was reduced by 15%, and the variation was reduced dramatically by 40%. In just one year, material savings amounted to more than 3 times the total investment in all of the SEWSS software, training, and implementation services purchased.
According to Steelcase, four out of fifteen Steelcase North American plants use SEWSS and expanded use is planned.
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In a recent article in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (January 2002 issue) reviewers call STATISTICA Neural Networks (SNN) an "excellent package for both new and experienced users of neural networks" and "by far the best, in terms of ease of use, power."
Reviewers Jeffrey Lusk, Oklahoma State University Department of Forestry, and Steven Wilson, of EcoLogic Research, compare STATISTICA Neural Networks with Neural Connections from SPSS and Qnet 2000 from Vesta Services. They agree that "SNN's interface is more intuitive than other packages and allows users to view simultaneously data, network predictions/output, and performance statistics." They conclude that STATISTICA is "the most intuitive and easiest to use of the three packages."
They found the genetic algorithms utility unique to STATISTICA. "SNN can test various combinations of variables against each other to evolve an optimal set for subsequent neural network development. The genetic algorithm also ranks variables in the optimal subset, indicating which variables are most important. This feature is useful for removing noisy, information-poor variables from large data sets prior to further analysis. Neither of the other two neural network packages mentioned above has this capability."
They also praise the simulation tool in SNN as being "much more intuitive and easy to use than a similar tool in SPSS's Neural Connections," while "Qnet 2000 does not provide a simulation tool at all." They go on to say that "SNN will generate classification networks if it detects a categorical dependent variable in the training data set. No additional input is required from the user, and model building is again very fast and efficient....Diagnostic output is very complete, and includes a sensitivity analysis to help determine the importance of different input variable to the final model."
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In the February 2002 issue of DM Review, John Deere Quality Engineer Navaid Ahmed gave STATISTICA rave reviews for its performance, ability to integrate, data visualization capabilities, and much more.
In the article, Ahmed discussed the variety of reasons why at John Deere "the decision to select STATISTICA was unanimous." According to Ahmed, "The versatility and flexibility of the product were the main reasons for selecting STATISTICA. It can be used for a variety of different forms of statistical analysis. Excellent service support and broad-based statistical analysis capability were the major advantages that this product had over others we considered."
Summarizing what he considers to be the main strengths of STATISTICA, Ahmed offered, "STATISTICA works well with our CMM systems." However, "the interactive ability of the software is its main strength. The different ways that data analysis can be performed and its ease of use with easy-to-read output are also some of the main strengths of STATISTICA. The ability to work with Microsoft Excel is also a plus."Ahmed also applauded StatSoft for its excellent and prompt technical support saying, "Quick email responses and solutions to problems I've faced have been the best part of working with the vendor."
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A recent (October 19, 2001, pps. 22-25) article in COMPUTERWORLD (Polish version) described how ALSTOM Power Elblag Sp. z o.o., a top manufacturer of turbine castings, uses STATISTICA Enterprise-wide SPC System (SEWSS) to optimize its production processes and ensure quality.
Jerzy Slawinski, ALSTOM Power's quality manager, speaks highly of SEWSS in the article, "The SEWSS system is not just a package that runs on the computer on the desk of an analyst. It is an integrated solution which links production, data acquisition, database and analytical parts."
"About 30 operators and engineers" and "a wide group of managers use the system" for data collection, data management, and statistical analysis. The entire process was described in the article:
"SEWSS continuously retrieves data: first, components and raw materials characteristics are measured (this additionally controls reliability of the suppliers), then characteristics of moulding sand (tensile strength and permeability), furnace charge, fire-clay moulders, melted metal composition and pouring process are monitored, parameters of heat treatment recorded, casting quality is measured (repair welding factor), dimensional compatibility checked. Each cast generates several hundred records of data. The factory produces over 400 tons of casts each month. Measurement data are retrieved by the system automatically or sent to the system by operators with measurement devices or keyboard data entry. SEWSS stores measurement data in an external database (in this case it is an Oracle database) and runs on a network server."
Slawinski says, "The global market in our sector is very competitive. Turbine castings dropped in prices by 50% in the last 5 years. In this situation, quality is not a negotiable option, we talk only about costs and time to delivery. Producers who will not manage to change in time will not stay in this market." The comprehensive analytical tools, flexible alarm notification, interactive query facilities, and many other innovative features in SEWSS help ALSTOM Power meet these essential quality standards.
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StatSoft, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of two new Six Sigma training courses to its comprehensive array of course offerings.
The courses, "Six Sigma Statistics - Basic" and "Six Sigma Statistics - Expert," have been designed to provide participants with an overview of the Six Sigma statistical tools. Participants will come away with a working knowledge of the Six Sigma capabilities of STATISTICA and be able to put the various methods into action at their organization.
Both courses focus primarily on the application of statistics within the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) methodology. Participants attend "Basic Training" for three days, while "Expert Training" runs for a full week (five days). $400 per day includes in-depth classroom training, detailed take-home course materials, and personal instruction.
For more details about these new courses or to register, click here or email training@statsoft.com.
StatSoft offers both introductory and advanced training courses, such as Design of Experiments and Statistical Process Control, and Six Sigma Green and Brown Belt courses in major cities in the United States and overseas. On-site training and custom application development are also available.
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For the fifth consecutive year, STATISTICA has been rated one of the top five products in statistical software by Scientific Computing & Instrumentation, a popular magazine among scientists and engineers. Published in the December 2001 issue, the annual selection is based on the products generating the most reader interest, as indicated by the use of the Reader Service Card, in a variety of product categories.
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Felix Grant, writer for Scientific Computing World, has just published a praise-filled review of STATISTICA 6 - "STATISTICA goes from Strength to Strength". The title seems appropriate, since throughout the review Grant praises practically every new feature in the program!
In general of STATISTICA 6 Grant says, "Down in the works, among the actual processes that a statistical package is there to perform, there are too many small enhancements, evolutions and developments to detail."
Here are some direct quotes from the article that give you an idea of Grants thoughts on STATISTICA 6 features:
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"Further evolution of the customisation potential is another welcome feature - STATISTICA has always been highly configurable to suit the user and environment; this quality has now been extended considerably. Option defaults are extensive, and most interface artefacts can now be created, moved, modified or removed in a rapid, efficient, highly intuitive manner. Menu customisation is mesmerically addictive, so easily can objects be moved from one place to another as if playing with children's building blocks."
"The ability to provide each user (or each group of users) with a version of the analytic tools best suited to their needs, extraneous distractions hidden or removed, is invaluable. Productivity is further enhanced if the user can adopt mnemonics and layouts that mimic other regularly-used software - and this, too, is now easier than ever."
On Graphics -
"Control, throughout, is effortless and precise. "
"Staying with the visual, STATISTICA's already impressive graphics technology has been further developed. There are now a hierarchical style system and intelligent format painting, which (once I was used to them) greatly cut the time and fiddle involved in tuning final output, as do new options in output design."
On VB -
"A variety of professional problems that I encountered during this period were solved quickly, efficiently and glossily with VB-automated STATISTICA, with or without other application interactions. These ranged from data repair macros, and mimic routines for the expert mentioned above, to online data polling and direct data logging, to a sudden need for HTML reports updated on a minute-by-minute basis."
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"STATISTICA as a whole has been overhauled to allow what seems to be more or less unlimited external data access power. Internal limits have also been removed - or, at least, I think they have. StatSoft makes use of the word ‘practically’ more than once in these contexts, which leaves the ambiguous possibility that limits still lurk out there somewhere. Whatever boundaries may remain, however, I haven’t found them - despite a determined attempt, using access to a terabyte store, which tied up my 1GHz/1024Mb machine for more than 36 hours but eventually completed."
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"Most software products are evolving to survive in this new environment; and STATISTICA is now very strong in the Internet or Intranet capability department."
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StatSoft Polska was recently selected as one of the "best and biggest" training companies in Poland by the Polish Magazine "Profit." The comprehensive report was compiled by a specialized agency and based on the opinions of 100 of the largest companies in Poland.
In 5 categories of trainings included in the report: Law, Management, Accounting/bookkeeping, Quality, and Information Technology, StatSoft Polska was selected as one of the "best and biggest" in 3 categories: (1) Management training (19 companies awarded), (2) Quality training (only 5 companies awarded), (3) IT training (only 4 companies awarded).
StatSoft Polska offers a wide variety of training course topics, including Sales Forecasting, Data Mining and Business Intelligence, Quality Improvement, Marketing and Market Research, and Medicine. In addition, courses designed for both basic and advanced users of specific statistical/data analysis techniques and instructional courses based on STATISTICA, STATISTICA Visual Basic, and STATISTICA Neural Networks are offered.
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StatSoft, Inc. proudly announces the addition of Six Sigma Green and Brown Belt training to its comprehensive array of training course topics. This innovative Six Sigma training program combines traditional classroom-based teaching with multimedia instruction to provide participants and employers with an effective, convenient, and cost-efficient introduction to the Six Sigma methodology and tools.
Sign up today for StatSoft's Six Sigma training and Achieve your company's Six Sigma Goal:
Lead your organization to a higher level of quality today! For more details or to register, click here.
In addition to a broad range of products for data analysis, data mining and quality control applications, StatSoft offers a variety of training and consulting services worldwide. Click here, for details.
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A new survey conducted by SCIENCE (the publication of the American Association for Advancement of Science; circulation: over 150,000) of a randomly selected sample of its readers has provided data on how StatSoft, Inc. is perceived by the community of scientists and administrators of science. The following are unedited statements about StatSoft, Inc. and its products volunteered anonymously by the respondents. The data for the surveys, sponsored by SCIENCE magazine, were collected by the Harvey Research Organization, Fairport, New York. The following selection of excerpts has been accepted by SCIENCE for use in this material (reprinted by permission of SCIENCE and Harvey Research Organization):
"I have used StatSoft [STATISTICA] before(...). You can't beat them."
-- Professor of Biology, University
"I know a lot of people that use it (...). The [STATISTICA] graphics are awesome."
-- Research Assistant, University
"We use this in many of our departments. The university appreciates its versatility."
-- Professor of Biology, University
"They make excellent statistical software."
-- Genetic Toxicologist, Industry
"(...) They have a great series of software packages."
-- Associate Professor, University
"(...) I think that StatSoft has a good thing going with this product. You can do a lot with it."
-- Associate Professor, University
"(...) I use their statistical package. I need to get another program from them. They have good quality."
-- Professor, Medical School
"I do know this company. I have a good image of them."
-- President, Industry
"I am familiar with this company. I have a good opinion of them."
-- Program Leader, Industry
"I think that StatSoft is excellent."
-- Vice President of R&D, Industry
"I like their statistics package because you can use it in all different fields. We have used it to make some of our displays. (...) I have always been impressed by them."
-- Botany Curator, Museum
"They have some excellent software. Some of it is very useful. I think the company is on the cutting-edge.""
-- Microbiologist, Government
"I have a good image of this company."
-- Asst. Professor, University
"(...) I am very impressed with them."
-- Sr. Research Associate, Laboratory
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STATISTICA 6 (Beta) recently received a very warm welcome from reviewer Felix Grant in the review "The future is here...at last" in the July/August issue of Scientific Computing World. Grant begins by reviewing the most obvious change from previous version, the interface, and describes the STATISTICA 6 interface as "extensively customizable to reflect your own requirements." He continues, "This ability to shape a working environment in the interests of maximum personal or team usefulness has, of course, always been one of STATISTICA's strong points; but the means now reflect current Windows trends."| Back to Top |
The July 9th issue of The Scientist featured a brief overview of some of the most commonly used statistical software tools on the market, and STATISTICA's description clearly stands out among the descriptions of its peers.
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StatSoft recently announced the release of WebSTATISTICA Server - applications designed to add a new dimension and an endless array of new possibilities to the entire line of STATISTICA software. WebSTATISTICA Server bring complete Internet enablement to STATISTICA, including the ability to run STATISTICA from a Web browser, and enable users to easily and quickly access data and powerful analytical tools from virtually any computer in the world as long as it is connected to the Web. WebSTATISTICA Server can be either purchased as stand-alone products accessible to users who are connected to the Internet or as an extension of an existing STATISTICA product installation.
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 | Based on the foundations that have earned STATISTICA more awards than any other data analysis product in the industry, StatSoft has enhanced STATISTICA with technologies and usability features that allow it to break new barriers in data analysis, data mining, and QC applications. STATISTICA 6 offers more new features and enhancements than any other upgrade in StatSoft's 17-year history. The new features (driven by the true object-oriented architecture of version 6), include: |
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For the fourth year in a row, STATISTICA has been rated one of the top five products in statistical software by Scientific Computing & Instrumentation, a popular magazine among scientists and engineers. Determined by reader response to items published in over a 12 month period, Scientific Computing & Instrumentation published the year 2000 winners in the recent July 2001 issue. Editors chose the products that generate the most reader interest, as indicated by the use of the Reader Service Card, in a wide variety of product categories.
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For a fifth consecutive year STATISTICA has received high marks from Scientific Computing and Instrumentation readers in multiple categories. STATISTICA is the winner in the QA/QC software category for the second year in a row in Scientific Computing and Instrumentation's July issue. STATISTICA is also a finalist in the category of statistical software.
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STATISTICA recently received the Reader's Choice Award and the highest ranking ("Finalist") among general purpose statistics software packages in the "AI Software (Expert, Neural)" category of the Reader's Choice Awards published in the 2001 Bonus issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities. Next to STATISTICA, only very specialized packages, designed specifically for trading/forecasting, received accolades. No other general purpose statistical software package was even mentioned in the results of the vote. The additional fact that StatSoft products have never been advertised in this publication, so readers know STATISTICA only from other sources, makes this award especially flattering. | Back to Top |
The Ministry of Science and Technology in Croatia recently purchased licenses for STATISTICA and STATISTICA Neural
Networks, making STATISTICA the standard statistical software at all four of Croatia's
universities. STATISTICA was chosen based on its ease of use and excellent statistical and graphical capabilities. More than 100,000 students of
all disciplines will have access to STATISTICA's comprehensive award-winning set of analytical tools, presentation-quality graphics,
and easy-to-use interface. In addition, STATISTICA Neural Networks will enhance and simplify exploratory data analysis in areas
like basic research, data mining applications, business forecasting, risk management and others. Click here to read the news release on STATISTICA becoming the standard statistical software among Croatian University students.| Back to Top |
In the February 2001 issue of DM Review magazine, STATISTICA Enterprise-wide SPC System (SEWSS) received a glowing review from Photronics, a leading worldwide supplier of photomasks, high precision quartz plates used in the manufacture of semiconductors. In 2000, after a team from Photronics conducted a thorough investigation of several SPC packages, they chose the unique scalability and versatility of STATISTICA Enterprise-wide SPC System (SEWSS) in order to guarantee the quality of its products shipped to consumers. Photronics recently implemented SEWSS at six sites internationally and plans to have six more sites on-line by March 2001. SEWSS was selected because of its ease of integration with Photronics' existing manufacturing execution system and because it provided flexibility beyond the existing system. According to Barbara Manville, Photronics director of corporate software development, StatSoft representatives worked diligently to resolve issues specific to their organization. Manville stated, "The best part of working with StatSoft has been the expertise of the technical support staff who are well versed in both statistics and the inner workings of the package." Click here to read the complete review.
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STATISTICA Enterprise-wide SPC System (SEWSS) has recently been deployed at Photronics, a leading worldwide supplier of photomasks, high precision quartz plates used in the manufacture of semiconductors. In order to guarantee the quality of its products shipped to consumers, Photronics has implemented SEWSS at six sites internationally and plans to have six more sites on-line by March 2001.
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BP will initially utilize STATISTICA in its chemicals division where employees in the United States and Europe will have access to a wide array of basic and advanced statistical techniques, including quality control charts, process analysis, experimental design, and neural networks.
For more information about BP's use of STATISTICA, click here. To read more comments from users, click here.| Back to Top |
In his recent comprehensive review of the latest version of STATISTICA (see the next section), Felix Grant, a software reviewer for Scientific Computing World, has summarized comments collected from "existing users [who] allowed detailed examination of (and some experimenting with) one SEDAS installation, two of SEWSS, and one of WebSEWSS."
The reviewer concluded that "these products display the familiar modularity and contain all the elements necessary for a potential dispersed data web of any kind. A SEWSS/WebSEWSS set up takes (SPC) data from a database, analyses it using what is essentially STATISTICA, then outputs results in web form instead of on paper."
Grant is extremely complimentary of the SEWSS system, touting its "proven capability at an automated industrial scale" and applauds StatSoft products in general: "No other company, however, has so successfully managed the particular trick of making a range of standalone products appear to be aspects of the analytical package - an extension of the inherent modularity." Click here to view other STATISTICA awards, comments from users, and a complete summary of STATISTICA's unmatched record of reviews.
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STATISTICA was ranked extremely high "amongst the small elite pack of leaders" in the August/September 2000 issue of Scientific Computing World.
In his very thorough three page review, reviewer Felix Grant discusses in detail practically all aspects of the STATISTICA family of products including the new, interactive modules introduced in version 5.5 (Visual General Linear Models, Visual Generalized Linear Models, Visual Partial Least Squares, and Visual General Stepwise Regression) as well as the new technologies offered by StatSoft to integrate the software with other applications and computing environments. The author summarizes by saying STATISTICA "excels in delivering clearly branded intuitive methods, ergonomic appeal, responsiveness and adaptability to a wide range of consumers." Grant calls STATISTICA version 5.5 "thoroughly modular, extremely open, and extensively customisable." He claims STATISTICA possesses "a uniquely intuitive usability which weighs heavily with real-world users" and features "the best onboard large database capability of any product in its market."
"Numerous statistical products offer API hooks to developers and OLE to other applications; several provide ready made interaction links to specific in-house or third-party products; a few offer a stable of other products which relate to the analytical package. StatSoft does all of these. No other company, however, has so successfully managed the particular trick of making a range of standalone products appear to be aspects of the analytical package - an extension of the inherent modularity."Click here to view other STATISTICA awards, comments from users, and a complete summary of STATISTICA's unmatched record of reviews.
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StatSoft South America was recently applauded for its donation of approximately $100,000 (U.S.) in statistical software to Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos (UFSCar). STATISTICA's impressive graphical interface, ease of use, and comprehensive set of analyses first prompted the university to request a donation from StatSoft. According to one university representative, they received much more than they expected as a result of their request. Now, undergraduate and graduate students of statistics, engineering, chemistry and physics will enjoy more than 26 basic and advanced modules in the award-winning STATISTICA, including: design of experiments, neural networks and fuzzy logic, and many more.
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VISTEON, one of the world's largest suppliers of automotive components and systems, gave rave reviews to STATISTICA Enterprise-wide SPC System
in a recent issue of the popular French magazine,
QUALITE REFERENCES (July 2000). VISTEON representatives claimed "SEWSS is actually only limited by our imagination." In the process of redesigning their SPC system and preparing for QS 9000 certification, they chose the STATISTICA/SEWSS system for a variety of reasons discussed in the article: "SEWSS is really flexible, and we could perfectly match the software to our current system, in a very easy and quick way: each entry is customizable (operator's name, lot number) which allows for very detailed analyses of the process variations. The extensive tools that are offered in SEWSS (DOE, multivariate analyses) was also an important aspect of our choice." VISTEON is clearly more than pleased with their choice, saying "As of today, our system grows very quickly, and is not limited by our
software." Click here to view other STATISTICA awards, comments from users, and a complete summary of STATISTICA's unmatched record of reviews.
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Scientific Computing and Instrumentation readers recently voted STATISTICA number one in the QA/QC Software category. This is the fourth year in a row STATISTICA has received high marks from Scientific Computing and Instrumentation readers for its comprehensive array of statistical techniques, analytical power, and user-friendly, customizable interface. STATISTICA has received the highest rating in EVERY comparative review of statistical software since its first release in 1993. Click here to view other STATISTICA awards, comments from users, and a complete summary of STATISTICA's unmatched record of reviews.| Back to Top |
StatSoft's Electronic Statistics Textbook was recently chosen as Hms Beagle's "Web Pick of the Day." Hms Beagle, one of Yahoo's top 32 "incredibly useful" Web sites, is a biweekly webzine for biological and medical researchers around the world, with a daily digest of Web resources and published material.| Back to Top |
In the March issue of Futures, a popular magazine among stock traders and analysts, STATISTICA garnered the highest point total when pitted against two other popular statistical packages. STATISTICA ('99, version 5.5) was awarded the highest overall rating (a total of 145 points), while packages by SPSS (version 10) and S-Plus (2000) received 139 and 103 points,
respectively. STATISTICA achieved the highest marks in 10 out of 17
categories, including User Interface, Basic Statistics, Graphing and more.
The reviewer also praised STATISTICA's powerful but easy to use programming language and the sophistication of STATISTICA's unique general linear and nonlinear modeling procedures. He notes "STATISTICA graphics are of exceptional quality and the easiest to edit." This review marks the seventh consecutive year since 1993 in which STATISTICA has received the highest rating in EVERY comparative review of statistics software in which it has been featured. Click here for more information about STATISTICA's unmatched record of reviews.| Back to Top |
With the recent addition of WebSEWSS, STATISTICA Enterprise-wide SPC System, (SEWSS), provides thin-client access to presentation-quality data via the Web. Now more completely enabled with WebSEWSS, SEWSS offers companies a more efficient means of knowledge-sharing and decision-support. With SEWSS, users can already automatically post company charts and reports on the Web with the click of the mouse, without knowledge of HTML or Java programming languages. Now, SEWSS allows users with or without the program to easily and quickly view up-to-date reports, charts, and tables via the Web.| Back to Top |
STATISTICA Neural Networks users now have the option to purchase an add-on for creating custom applications (e.g., in C or C++) from neural network solutions found using the program. This new add-on application generates a source code version of a neural network in C or C++ file, which can then be compiled into programs for royalty-free distribution. The product is designed for corporate system developers and other users who need to convert the highly-optimized solutions generated by the STATISTICA Neural Networks procedures into fixed, predefined applications that will solve routine analytic problems. Click here for more information about STATISTICA Neural Networks and this new add-on.
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StatSoft is pleased to announce that a new subsidiary, StatSoft
Czech Republic, s.r.o., has recently joined the far-reaching network of StatSoft offices worldwide. Czech Republic is one of the most industrialized countries in Central/Eastern Europe, with one of the highest GNP/per capita in the region. Conveniently located in one of the business districts of Prague, the new office is well prepared to serve the many users of StatSoft products in all areas of the rapidly developing Czech economy. In addition to its headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma, StatSoft now boasts 19 overseas offices in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Click here to visit the StatSoft Czech Republic web site.
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Britannica, the makers of Encyclopedia Britannica, the oldest and largest general reference in the English language, recently placed the StatSoft web site in the company of an elite group and awarded StatSoft with the Britannica Internet Guide Award. Britannica editors praised the StatSoft web site as one of the best on the Internet when reviewed for quality, accuracy of content, presentation and usability. Now, in addition to using StatSoft's comprehensive electronic statistics textbook as a statistical resource, users can link directly to one the most trusted sources of information on the Internet, Britannica.com.| Back to Top |
STATISTICA has received the highest ranking among statistics software packages ("Finalist") in both the "Statistical Analysis Software" category and the "AI Software (Expert, Neural)" in a Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities' reader survey. In the "Statistical Analysis Software" category, STATISTICA was trailed by SPSS ("Semi-finalist"), and SAS, Minitab, and S-Plus ("Honorable Mentions"). In the "AI Software (Expert, Neural)" category, the only other product of a statistical software company that was mentioned in the results of the vote is SPSS' Neural Connection ("Honorable Mention"). The fact that StatSoft products have never been advertised in this publication, so readers know STATISTICA only from other sources, makes this award especially flattering.
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