ViSta ViSta --- The Visual Statistics System --- is a statistical system featuring state-of-the-art statistical visualization tools for communicating data structure and statistical analysis results, and for guiding and structuring the analysis process. ViSta is designed for a wide range of users. ViSta is particularly useful for those learning statistics and their teachers. It is being used to teach: Introductory Statistics Multivariate Statistics Computational Statistics Graphical Statistics ViSta is also being used for research and development in computational and graphical statistics. ViSta is designed for an audience of users having a very wide range of data analysis sophistication, ranging from novice to expert. ViSta provides seamlessly integrated data analysis environments specifically tailored to the user's level of expertise. Guidance is available for students and novices. A structured graphical user interface is available for all users. A menu interface is available for users who don't need guidance. A command line interface is available for sophisticated users and those who don't like graphical interfaces. Multivariate data analysis procedures are available for students in multivariate analysis. The complete Lisp-Stat (Tierney, 1990) programming environment is available to researchers, graduate students and programmers who wish to extend ViSta's capabilities. GuideTools are available for teachers and other experts to create guidance for students and novices. Applets can be written for web-based distance learning.

Current Version:   4.29 (UNIX) License Type:   Copyright 1997-1999 by Forrest W. Young. Freely redistributable. The complete copyright statement is here.

Home Site: http://forrest.psych.unc.edu/research/ViSta.html Mirror Sites: HENSA (UK) | SunSite Vienna (Austria) | SSDA@ANU (Australia) | UNC (USA) Mailing Lists/USENET News Groups: vista@unc.edu (join here). Source Code Availability: All source code is freely available. Available Binary Packages: None Targeted Platforms: Various Unix Platforms; Windows 95, 3.1 & NT; OS/2; Mac OS. Software/Hardware Requirements: No special requirements.

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