SOFTWARE REVIEWS AND COMPARISONS

• The Journal of Applied Econometrics includes software reviews (either by package or by research topic) in every issue:
  • Review of Stata 7, by Stanislav Kolenikov, Vol. 16, No. 5 (September-October)

• A comparison of Gauss and Matlab, written in 1998 by Marc Nerlove, University of Maryland

• User reports on Matlab, Gauss, Mathematica, Maple, S-Plus (includes information in German)

• Comparison of mathematical programs for data analysis, a comparison that includes GAUSS, Matlab, Maple, Mathematica, and S-Plus, among other packages

• Statistical and mathematical software reviews (no longer updated)

• Mathematical software reviews, maintained by the Learning and Teaching Support Network (U.K.)

• QSR NUD*IST and other qualitative (textual) analysis software packages, a collection of papers posted by QSR International, producers of QSR N5 (formerly QSR NUD*IST).

• Textual analysis resources, includes brief descriptions of available software packages.