A comparison of statistical packages such as SPSS, STATISTICA, and SAS Enterprise Guide.

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to compare three statistical software packages when applied to analysis of categorical data. These packages are SPSS, STATISTICA , and SAS Enterprise Guide. They provide a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques, and enable users to obtain the results of statistical procedures, without requiring programming. The comparison between these packages were based upon some features such as data input, capability to define missing values, value labels, producing a frequency tables (including multiple response), making a bar graphs, descriptive statistics, Binomial test, Chi-square goodness-of-fit test