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In general, free statistical software gives results that are the same as the results from commercial programs. Many of the packages are fairly easy to learn, using menu systems. Many others are command-driven. These packages come from a variety of sources, including [[government]]s, [[University|universities]], and private individuals.

Some packages are developed for specific purposes (e.g., time series analysis, [[factor analysis]], calculators for probability distributions, etc.), while others are general packages, with a variety of statistical procedures. Others are meta-packages or statistical computing environments, which allow the user to code completely new statistical procedures. This article is a review of the general statistical packages.