PAST v2.17c New

Checker on 1 Mar 2013

PAST (PAlaeontological STatistics) is a data analysis package aimed at paleontology. Inspired by PALSTAT, it includes common statistical, plotting and modeling functions. It features a spreadsheet-like data entry form, and supports both interactive user interface and scripting.

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System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None. It does write the paths of the last used files/folders to a file called pastsetup.txt in the user profile folder (under "My Documents"), but that should not affect its portability.
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Past.exe.
What's new?
  • Two-way ANOVA without replication
  • Chao-1 species richness estimator (bias corrected)
  • Landmark 3D plot: Added animation function
  • Coefficient of variation now also available in the Univariate statistics module
  • Box-Cox: Automatic addition of constant for zero or negative values
  • Kolmogorov-Smirnov: Permutation test was inaccurate, fixed
  • Rarefaction: Option to leave out confidence intervals in banana plot
  • Cluster analysis: Dendrogram export, displacement of labels bug, fixed
  • Wavelet analysis: Color coding changed (again)
  • Fourier shape analysis: Number of harmonics increased to 30
  • Some other minor improvements

6 comments on PAST  The Portable Freeware Collection Latest Entries Feed

AlephX 2007-03-08 23:35

This package is quite interesting for the ones interested in Statistics, not only palaeontologic experts...

Yucca 2007-03-10 08:04

Given its size and portability, this is an incredibly powerful package for statistical analysis in the social and behavioral sciences.

If you use a UPX compressor, the single executable can be compressed to 648KB without loss of functionality!

--Yucca

dis4 2009-12-16 19:53

It is very nice and handy program and it is the best among freeware for statistic in my opinion. Respect to authors.

Dejan 2010-12-20 14:26

Tried to analyze my 28600+ cells table in Statistica. It died horribly. Did the same in PAST. Gave me the results I needed instantly.

suksumo 2013-04-26 20:32

I read the menu ,this is very practical and powerful stat software.Could anyone show me how I can find the user manual / or tutorial. thank youu.suksumo

v2.17c

Checker 2013-04-26 22:29

v2.17c

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