Free statistics software for Macintosh computers (Macs)

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IBM SPSS

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JASP

JASP and Jamovi share lightning-fast speed; a wide range of statistics, with extra plugins on Jamovi; and easy installation on Macs, Windows, and Linux. Their basic interface has an Office 365-style open/save/print/export tab; options on the left, output on the right layout; instant changes to the output if you change the input; and export of both data and output, as desired. JASP does not let you set missing values for one variable at a time; you're supposed to deal with this in a spreadsheet. JASP is set up so you edit data separately, and if you can live with this, it’s probably the best of the three overall.

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jamovi

Other notes. Developer Jonathon Love pointed us to the Jamovi library of extra procedures. A long, well-illustrated Jamovi blog post also goes over the fine graphics capabilities within Jamovi, which PSPP can only dream of. In our run-throughs, the numbers were identical to SPSS, PSPP, and JASP.

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PSPP

PSPP is unique in cloning an old version of SPSS quite well, making it very familiar to those used to SPSS. It has some nasty bugs and quirks, so JASP and Jamovi may be better options unless you do a lot of data manipulation, or want to have a journal and use syntax. Not having a real Mac user interface makes PSPP painful at times, but it’s probably the best of the bunch for Linux users.

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