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Statistics
Software at the University of Mississippi NOTE: Unlike other
parts of the MCSR web page, the information on this page applies only to the
UM-Oxford campus (unless specifically noted otherwise, as in the cases of
MATLAB and Stata.)
Concurrent License for University-Owned Computers. SPSS may be installed on any UM-owned computer. There is no limit to the number of computers SPSS may be installed on, and no charge for installing or using it on a UM owned computer. When the program is started, it will talk to a server in the UM Data Center and "check out" one of approx. 100 licenses. In theory, this means that there is a limit on the number of people/computers who can be running SPSS simultaneously. In practice, it is unheard of for all 100 licenses to be checked out simultaneously. Detailed instructions for obtaining and installing SPSS on a UM owned computer are available in the myOleMiss portal. About. SAS is a comprehensive statistical analysis package published and distributed by a company also called SAS. The current version of SAS is v.9.2. The university purchases 50 licenses for SAS. Participating Departments. 34 of UM 's 50 SAS licenses are paid for by contributions from participating departments. For 2010/2011, the participating departments are: the School of Business Administration; the School of Pharmacy Administration; the Department of Economics; and the Department of Biological Sciences. Researchers in these organizations should contact their academic deans or department chairs about acquiring the software. All Others. The remaining 16 SAS licenses are paid for by the Office of Information Technology, and are available for purchase through the Faculty Technology Development Center. The FTDC sells each license for $300. This is a substantial discount over the market price for a single SAS license. Licenses can be ordered from the FTDC through their website. NOTE: Do you represent
a department or organization that has a need for multiple SAS licenses? The
per-user cost for SAS is lower for participating departments than that for
single users buying through the FTDC.
To discuss becoming a participating department, contact
Brian Hopkins of MCSR at (662) 915-5683 or bwhopkin@olemiss.edu. About. Stata is a data analysis and statistics software package published by StataCorp. The current version of Stata is release 11. The university does not purchase or provide Stata to employees or students. However, Stata is available to UM students and faculty at a substantial discount through the GradPlan program. GradPlan. Stata's GradPlan is a discounting program for academics. The software is purchased direct from the company via the Stata web site. After the purchase has gone through, the company will send an e-mail notification to the buyer and to MCSR staff. Once this e-mail is received, the buyer can pick up the software in Powers Hall on the UM-Oxford campus. For details on pricing and the link to purchase Stata, see this page. UMMC. The University of Mississippi Medical Center participates in the Stata GradPlan program as well. About. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics published by the Free Software Foundation under the GNU Public License. GPL. Simply put, R is free. As such it can be downloaded direct from the R project homepage and installed on any computer in the world. If you are a heavy user of R, the project would like you to contribute, either by making a monetary donation or pitching in to improve the program. There is no obligation to do either. MCSR systems. R is installed on redwood and can, upon researcher request, be installed on sequoia and mimosa. The program is scalable and so can be run in parallel in order to speed up calculations. Contact MCSR staff at assist@mcsr.olemiss.edu to discuss running R on MCSR systems. About. MATLAB is an extremely powerful all-purpose mathematical and scientific software package (and programming environment) published by The Math Works. While not specifically a statistics package, the power and flexibility of MATLAB allow users to perform complex analyses of all kinds. Site License. The University has a site license for MATLAB that allows the program to be installed on any computer for use by faculty, staff and students of the University of Mississippi. The software is downloaded direct from MathWorks.com; instructions for acquiring the software and installing it can be found in the myOleMiss portal. Toolboxes. Certain capabilities of MATLAB are arranged into "Toolboxes" that are licensed separately from the main program. The University 's site license includes those Toolboxes that participating researchers need and use. From time to time, researchers identify new Toolboxes that are essential to the conduct of their work. Researchers who encounter this problem should initiate a conversation about adding Toolboxes by contacting Brian Hopkins of MCSR at (662) 915-5683 or bwhopkin@olemiss.edu. UMMC. The University of Mississippi 's site license for MATLAB and various Toolboxes covers researchers at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Note: The MATLAB site license is paid for by
annual contributions from participating departments of the University. If you represent a department that uses
MATLAB heavily, please consider contributing. The contact point for MATLAB contributions is Brian Hopkins of MCSR at (662) 915-5683 or bwhopkin@olemiss.edu. About. Mathematica is an extremely powerful all-purpose mathematical and scientific software package published by Wolfram Research. While not specifically a statistics package, the power and flexibility of Mathematica allow users to perform complex analyses of all kinds. Site License. Mathematica is covered by a comprehensive site license allowing all faculty, staff and students of the University of Mississippi to install and use the program. The license covers student-owned personal computers in addition to University computers. Instructions for acquiring the software and installing it can be found in the myOleMiss portal. Toolboxes. Certain capabilities of Mathematica are arranged into "Plug-Ins" that are licensed separately from the main program. From time to time, researchers identify new Plug-Ins that are essential to the conduct of their work. Researchers who encounter this problem should initiate a conversation about adding Plug-Ins by contacting Brian Hopkins of MCSR at (662) 915-5683 or bwhopkin@olemiss.edu. About. Of course anything that can be done with a commercial software package can, with enough time and energy, be done with custom-built code. Also, many researchers eventually find that they need to do something that no commercial package can do, and so find themselves either building applications from scratch or making modifications to an open-source package such as R. In such cases, all MCSR systems have compilers for custom-built programs. GCC. The Gnu Project offers free Fortran and C/C++ compilers as part of the Gnu Compiler Collection. Most Linux distributions come with GCC as part of the basic installation. Mac OSX does not include GCC by default, but the compilers can be installed as part of Apple's free XCode Tools package for developers. Windows versions of GCC are available via the GCC web site. Various versions of GCC are installed on all MCSR HPC platforms. Intel. The University has a two-seat concurrent network license for Intel Compilers. Intel C/C++ and Fortran compilers are a bit more fickle than Gnu compilers, but generally produce better-performing code (particularly on Intel processors). Intel compilers are the primary compilers on sequoia and redwood. | |
