In early June, 2007, I pushed my Windows Vista machines aside and switched to a Mac. I'm happy to report that after a relatively smooth transition, I'm officially a Mac user! Consequently, this page needs to be updated to reflect my new "digital lifestyle" and the programs that I use on my Mac.

Typesetting and Document Creation

• L^AT_EX

• WinEdt (front end for L^AT_EX)

Statistical Computing with R

• The R Project (R, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.)

• RWinEdt (WinEdt as a front end for R).

• EQS

• ESCI

• Maple

• Mplus

• Mx

• R (see above section also)

• SAS

• S-Plus

• SPSS

• John Pezzullo's List of Free Statistical Software Program

• Micah Altman's Impoverished Social Scientist's Guide to Free Statistical Software

• Department of Biostatics, University of Texas, Statistical Program List

• Jim Martindale's On-Line Statistics Calculators

• Scientific Computing Links

• Open Office (High quality office productivity suite [alternative to Microsoft Office])

• PDF Creator (Create PDF files from virtually any program that prints [alternative to Adobe Acrobat])

• Thunderbird (High quality email program [alternative to Microsoft Outlook])

• Firefox ("For a better web experience" [alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer])

• OpenSource.org Promotes and provides information on Open Source software

• Open Source List (Search for Open Source software)

• Source Forge (Open Source Development)

• Mozilla (Home of Firefox, Thunderbird, and other Open Source programs)

• The Free Software Foundation Promotes and provides information on Open Source software

• Free Software Magazines

• GNU Project 

• HsinLin Free Ware Web Page (Find many free programs for a wide variety of tasks)

• Freeware list from eConsultant (Search for Freeware)

• Open Source list from eConsultant (Search for Open Source software)

 Various Computing Links

• Raynald Levesque's SPSS Tools