Original review published on Steve Litchfield's 3-Lib.

Sometimes a program's raison d'être is so obvious that description is not really necessary. Statistics fits neatly in this category. If the program's name doesn't give the game away, then the screen-shot below certainly will. I was looking at v1.0, grabbed from Peter Csutora's web site.

All the usual statistical functions are here, from simple standard deviations to lines of regression. But more than this, Statistics is genuinely useful in the way in which it holds your hand as you, a potentially stats-illiterate user, struggle to make sense out of reams of numeric information. There's a wonderful 'Expert' to guide you through the analysis maze and the excellently laid-out interface reassures at all times that you're in control.

Import of data is possible from individual rows or columns of a spreadsheet, a slightly limited but sufficient mechanism for ensuring you don't have to type all your data in all over again. Once in Statistics's own format, data can be saved and restored at will. I would have liked to have seen proper multi-column data importing from Word and Sheet and also felt that the limit of 100 X-Y data pairs is a little small. Presumably the author was worried about the memory requirements of handling more data at once, but serious analysts will be prepared to give up some memory to be able to do the job in hand.

A good set of help screens complete a well-rounded and well-written Series 5 application.

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