ViSta: The Visual Statistics System

Description

ViSta is designed for an audience of users having a very wide range of data analysis sophistication, ranging from novice to expert. ViSta provides seamlessly integrated data analysis environments specifically tailored to the user's level of expertise. Guidance is available for students and novices, and tools are available for teachers and other experts to create guidance for these novices. A structured graphical user interface is available for competent users, and a command line interface is available for sophisticated users. The complete Lisp-Stat programming environment is available to researchers and graduate students who wish to extend ViSta's capabilities.

Supported Computing Environments

Work-In-Progress

ViSta is a work-in-progress. Not all features are supported, and some features are incomplete. While quality assurance testing has been done, this is a pre-release system that is not fully mature.

At the current stage of development, ViSta is viable as an experimental statistical software system used for extra credit exercises in introductory statistics, and as the focus of graduate courses focussed on computational statistics. However, it is premature to use ViSta in undergraduate statistics classes that need a complete and robust statistic analysis system.

Project Investigator and Contact Person

Forrest W. Young

E-mail: forrest@unc.edu

WWW: http://forrest.psych.unc.edu