One letter: R http://www.r-project.org/ (I think that's it. Anyway, does everything you want and is also a sort of nice scripting language). Zed A. Shaw http://www.zedshaw.com/ On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:45:46 +0900 Mike Schwab <michael.schwab / yale.edu> wrote: > A piece of software that badly needs to be written is an easy-to-use > statistics package. Apparently, in the social sciences the industry > standard is this program called SPSS, which is a chore to use, quite > expensive, and suffers from all sorts of vestiges that no modern > program should. >