This page lists free resources for methods in evaluation and social research. The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, observations, focus groups, sampling, experimental designs, interviews, and other methods. Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web. Also links to free software, and info on how to present data. Maintained by Gene Shackman.

http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/

PageRank: 6/10

(Clicks: 800; Added on: Jul 12, 2006)

Free Tool: WinIDAMS

WinIDAMS is a free software package for the validation, manipulation and statistical analysis of data, developed by the UNESCO Secretariat in co-operation with experts from various countries.
It offers:
- modern graphical user interface and on-line Reference Manual,
- possibility to customize the environment for an application,
- facilities for editing/creating data files and data description files,
- interactive data import/export,
- editor for creating/updating files with instructions for program execution,
- viewer for displaying and quick navigation through results,
- advanced text editing facilities,
- facilities for sorting and merging files, data editing, checking of codes and consistencies, correcting, listing, subsetting, aggregating, merging and transforming data, including construction of new variables,
- wide range of data analysis techniques such as: table building, regression analysis, one-way analysis of variance, discriminant analysis, cluster analysis, principal components factor analysis and analysis of correspondences, partial order scoring, rank ordering of alternatives, segmentation and iterative typology,
- interactive components for construction of multidimensional tables and their graphical presentation, for graphical exploration of data and for times series analysis.
WinIDAMS and a self-teaching module "How to work with WinIDAMS" are available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
It seems that UNESCO is no longer supporting or updateing WinIDAMS. Latest version is WinIDAMS 1.3, available since May 2008.

http://www.unesco.org/idams/

PageRank: 7/10

(Clicks: 12; Added on: Mar 15, 2012)

David Lane's Free Statistical Analysis Software List

David Lane's Free Statistical Analysis Software List. All software listed here is free and runs under Macintosh, Windows, and Unix operating systems.
Everything is listed within the following categories:
- General Analysis Programs
- Power
- Tables
- Univariate Descriptive
- Regression and Correlation
- Curve Fitting
- Distribution Free Tests

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/Statistical_analyses.html

PageRank: 5/10

(Clicks: 10; Added on: Mar 12, 2012)

Tobias Gabele's list of free statistical software

List of free statistcial software, maintained by Tobias Gabele. Lots of notes about many of them, i.e., features, requirements.

http://statistiksoftware.com/free_software.html

PageRank: 4/10

(Clicks: 8; Added on: Mar 11, 2012)

Gordon Smyth's List of Free Statistical Packages

Gordon Smyth's List of Free Statistical Packages, with short descriptions.
Belongs to StatSci.org, a portal for statistical science.

http://www.statsci.org/free.html

PageRank: 5/10

(Clicks: 5; Added on: Mar 10, 2012)

Andrea Corsini's Free Statistical Software List

The Free Statistical Software List, maintained by Andrea Corsini, offers a large list and some reviews of statistical sofware available for free.
General purpose packages can be found as well as, among others, tools for basic statistics, time series and econometrics, structural equation modeling, sampling, and data-mining.
At the main page, language can be switched from English to Italian or French.

http://freestatistics.altervista.org/en/stat.php

PageRank: 5/10

(Clicks: 6; Added on: Mar 6, 2012)

Free Tool: LibreOffice

LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.
Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.
LibreOffice is offered in many different languages.
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LibreOffice ist eine leistungsfähige Office-Suite, voll kompatibel mit den Programmen anderer großer Office-Anbieter, für verbreitete Betriebssysteme wie Windows, GNU/Linux 32-/64-Bit und Apple Mac OS X geeignet. LibreOffice bietet sechs Anwendungen für die Erstellung von Dokumenten und zur Datenverarbeitung: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base und Math.
Unsere engagierte Gemeinschaft aus Benutzern, Beitragenden und Entwicklern bietet kostenlosen Support und Dokumentation.
LibreOffice wird in vielen Sprachen angeboten.

http://www.libreoffice.org/

PageRank: 7/10

(Clicks: 2; Added on: Mar 5, 2012)

Free Tool: oFb - der onlineFragebogen

Der onlineFragebogen (oFb) von Dominik Leiner ist ein professionelles Softwarepaket, das Ihre Onlinebefragung unkompliziert und zuverlässig ins Internet bringt. Hierfür sind mit oFb quasi keine Kenntnisse zu Webdesign oder Programmierung notwenig. Doch wer sich damit auskennt, kann den Fragebogen mit oFb genauso individuell gestalten, wie "selbst programmiert" - nur viel schneller!
oFb wurde speziell für die wissenschaftliche Befragung konzipiert und wird stetig für die tägliche Forschungspraxis weiterentwickelt.
Für wissenschaftliche Befragungen ist (und bleibt) der onlineFragebogen kostenlos.

https://www.soscisurvey.de/

PageRank: 5/10

(Clicks: 227; Added on: Mar 15, 2008)

Free Tool: Fragebogen-Tool

Mit dem Fragebogen-Tool können Sie in 15 Minuten kostenlos ihre eigene Online-Umfrage (bis zu 15 Fragen) auf den zur Verfügung stehenden Servern starten.

http://www.fragebogen-tool.de/

PageRank: 3/10

(Clicks: 470; Added on: Jun 9, 2007)

Free Tool: opensurveypilot

Opensurveypilot is a strong opensource webbased system for generating complete online surveys, polls and much more.
Latest software version is from 2007.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/osp/

PageRank: 4/10

(Clicks: 514; Added on: Jul 4, 2006)