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Harumi Itoa and Darin Lee, Journal of Economics and Business, Volume 57, Issue 1, January–February 2005, Pages 75-95. Assessing the impact of the September 11 terrorist attacks on U.S. airline demand. doi 10.1016/j.jeconbus.2004.06.003. Also available here http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Papers/Papers/2003/2003-16_paper.pdf</ref> EpiInfo was also used in several papers,<ref>

Rahav G, Gabbay R, Ornoy A, Shechtman S, Arnon J, Diav-Citrini O. Primary versus nonprimary cytomegalovirus infection during pregnancy, Israel. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2007 Nov [May 15, 2009]. Available from https://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/13/11/1791.htm</ref><ref>

Chan P-C, Huang L-M, Wu Y-C, Yang H-L, Chang I-S, Lu C-Y, et al. Tuberculosis in children and adolescents, Taiwan, 1996–2003. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2007 Sep. Available from https://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/13/9/1361.htm</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Gyasi | first1 = ME | last2 = Amoaku | first2 = WMK | last3 = Adjuik | first3 = MA | date = December 2007 | title = Epidemiology of Hospitalized Ocular Injuries in the Upper East Region of Ghana | journal = Ghana Med J. | volume = 41 | issue = 4| pages = 171–175 | pmc=2350113 | pmid=18464900}}</ref> R was used in a number of papers<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Handcock | first1 = Mark S. | last2 = Hunter | first2 = David R. | last3 = Butts | first3 = Carter T. | last4 = Goodreau | first4 = Steven M. | last5 = Morris | first5 = Martina | year = 2008 | title = statnet: Software Tools for the Representation, Visualization, Analysis and Simulation of Network Data | journal = J Stat Softw | volume = 24 | issue = 1| pages = 1548–7660 | pmc=2447931 | pmid=18618019| doi = 10.18637/jss.v024.i01 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hume | first1 = Michael E. | last2 = Scanlan | first2 = Charles M. | last3 = Harvey | first3 = Roger B. | last4 = Andrews | first4 = Kathleen | last5 = Snodgrass | first5 = James D. | last6 = Nalian | first6 = Armen G. | last7 = Martynova-Van Kley | first7 = Alexandra | last8 = Nisbet | first8 = David J. | year = 2008 | title = Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis as a Tool To Determine Batch Similarity of Probiotic Cultures of Porcine Cecal Bacteria | url = http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/74/16/5241 | journal = Applied and Environmental Microbiology | volume = 74 | issue = 16| pages = 5241–5243 | doi=10.1128/aem.02580-07 | pmid=18586972 | pmc=2519268}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Bylesjö | first1 = Max | last2 = Nicholson | first2 = Jeremy K | last3 = Holmes | first3 = Elaine | last4 = Trygg | first4 = Johan | year = 2008| title = K-OPLS package: Kernel-based orthogonal projections to latent structures for prediction and interpretation in feature space | journal = BMC Bioinformatics | volume = 9| page = 106 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2105-9-106 | pmid=18284666 | pmc=2323673}}</ref> and WinIdams was used in other papers.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Sapre | first1 = N. S. | last2 = Pancholi | first2 = N. | last3 = Gupta | first3 = S. | year = 2008 | title = Computational Modeling of Substitution Effect on HIV–1 Non–Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors with Kier–Hall Electrotopological State (E–state) Indices, Internet Electron | url = http://www.biochempress.com/cv07_i03.html | journal = Internet Electronic Journal of Molecular Design | volume = 7 | issue = | pages = 55–67 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Chawla | first1 = Anju | year = 2007| title = Exploring project selection behavior of academic scientists in India | journal = Research Evaluation | volume = 16 | issue = 1| pages = 35–45 | doi=10.3152/095820207x196768}}</ref>

While Microsiris doesn't appear to be used in academic research, the author of the program was one of the original authors of OSIRIS,<ref>Data Sharing for Demographic Research Knowledge Base, question on OSIRIS, University of Michigan, http://dsdr-kb.psc.isr.umich.edu/answer.html?i=1076</ref> which was the starting program from which WinIdams was developed.<ref name=micwin>IDAMS, Internationally Developed Data Analysis and Management Software Package. WinIDAMS Reference Manual (release 1.3) UNESCO, 2008. Preface. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=25081&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=-465.html</ref> The author of Microsiris also has contributed or co-contributed several components to WinIdams.<ref name=micwin/>

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==Reviews of free statistical software==

There are a few reviews of free statistical software. There were two reviews in journals (but not peer reviewed), one by Zhu and Kuljaca<ref>"A Short Preview of Free Statistical Software Packages for Teaching Statistics to Industrial Technology Majors" Journal of Industrial Technology (Volume 21-2, April 2005), Ms. Xiaoping Zhu and Dr. Ognjen Kuljaca. http://www.nait.org/jit/current.html</ref> and another article by Grant that included mainly a brief review of R.<ref>Felix Grant, "Free Statistics Software, Yours, Free to keep....", Scientific Computing World, Sept/Oct 2004, http://www.scientific-computing.com/scwsepoct04free_statistics.html</ref> Zhu and Kuljaca outlined some useful characteristics of software, such as ease of use, having a number of statistical procedures and ability to develop new procedures. They reviewed several programs and identified which ones, at that time, had the most functionality. At that time, several of the programs may not have had all of the desired ability for advanced statistics. Grant reviewed some of the programing features of R, and briefly mentioned the availability of other programs. One other paper reviewed statistical packages, mainly commercial, but includes R.<ref>Edward J. Wegman and Jeffrey L. Solka. 2005. Statistical Software for Today and Tomorrow. http://www.galaxy.gmu.edu/ (listed as "A Guide to Statistical Software".</ref> One article reviewed EasyReg and included a discussion of its accuracy.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hwan-sik | first1 = Choia | last2 = Kiefer | first2 = Nicholas M. | year = 2005 | title = Software evaluation: EasyReg International | url = | journal = International Journal of Forecasting | volume = 21 | issue = 3| pages = 609–616 | doi = 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2005.02.003 }}</ref>

Only one review has compared the output of various packages.<ref name=shackman>Shackman, Gene. 2006. "Comparing free statistical software for data sets with no missing values" and "Comparing free statistical software, Handling missing data". Both available here "Free Software" http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/soft.html</ref> In this review, all of the packages read either [[Comma-separated values|CSV]] files or [[Microsoft Excel]] format. All of the packages gave exactly the same results for [[correlation]] and [[regression analysis|regression]]. The free software packages also gave the same regression results as did excel. One of the main differences among the packages was how they handled [[missing data]]. With the example data sets used in the review, and for the package versions available in November 2006 when this review was conducted, two packages, MicrOsiris and Epi Info, could read files with blanks for missing. Two other programs, Stat4U and WinIdams need something for the missing, like -9 or -9.99. The other packages could only handle data sets with no missing values.

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There is also a journal specifically for statistical software,<ref>Journal of Statistical Software, http://www.jstatsoft.org/</ref> although the main focus is on commercial software, R and some coding snippets.

In contrast, there are various reviews of commercial statistical software, such as a comparison between several major packages<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Acock | first1 = Alan C | year = 2005 | title = SAS, Stata, SPSS: A Comparison | url = | journal = Journal of Marriage and Family | volume = 67 | issue = 4| pages = 1093–1095 | doi=10.1111/j.1741-3737.2005.00196.x}} Summarized in Hom, Willard. 2006. Choosing Between SAS, Stata, and SPSS. http://www.cccco.edu/SystemOffice/Divisions/TechResearchInfo/ResearchandPlanning/AbstractsofResearch/ResearchMethods/tabid/302/Default.aspx {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526072944/http://www.cccco.edu/SystemOffice/Divisions/TechResearchInfo/ResearchandPlanning/AbstractsofResearch/ResearchMethods/tabid/302/Default.aspx |date=2009-05-26 }}</ref> and a brief review of several packages.<ref>Wass, John. No date. Comparative Statistical Software Review. Tabulations and musings from your editor's biased perspective. Scientific Computing. http://www.scientificcomputing.com/comparative-statistical-software.aspx</ref>

==Using free statistical software==