Software Services: Getting Started Guides & Documents

This page contains downloadable support documents for some of the most popular quantitative, qualitative, and data conversion software at Stanford. We have included guides for getting started with software packages in different operating systems, resources for learning more about the software, tips for data entry, and other useful documents. Our documents are also available in print format in The Velma Denning Room.

Please note that our documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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Quantitative Software
SAS:
Using SAS Analyst for Windows
Resources for learning SAS
SAS Macro Language
SAS for UNIX

SPSS:
Reading Raw Data into SPSS
Resources for learning SPSS
SPSS for Mac
SPSS for Windows
SPSS for UNIX

Stata:
Complex Survey Design/Stata UNIX
Resources for learning Stata
Stata for UNIX
Stata for Windows

Qualitative Software
Getting Started with ATLAS.ti
Getting Started with NVivo
Resources for Learning NVivo
SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys

Data Conversion Software
DBMS/COPY for UNIX
Stat/Transfer for UNIX
Stat/Transfer to read OSIRIS

Data Entry
Tips for Data Entry

Writing About Numeric Data
Writing About Numeric Data

GIS/Statistical Resources for Spatial Analysis
Statistical Resources for Spatial Data Analysis in the Social Sciences

Other Software
AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures)
HLM (Hierarchical Linear and Nonlinear Modeling)
MINITAB for UNIX
Using Statistical Software through X-Windows on PC
Using Excel for Statistical Analysis
Using R for Windows
Resources for Learning R

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