2634	 An Evaluation of Statistical Software in the Social Sciences	 Several hundred college and university computer installations now offer various types of statistical packages for general use. Among those most widely available are OSIRIS SPSS BMD DATA-TEXT and TSAR. In order to provide users with a basis for selection and use tests were made for each of these systems and the results are summarized as to cost and performance. statistical computation statistical software descriptive statistics bivariate tables Pearson correlation regression factor analysis one-way analysis of variance
