XLSTAT 2008.7 for Mac OS
December 18, 2008Addinsoft announces the availability of XLSTAT 2008.7 for Mac. This version is compatible with Excel X and Excel 2004.
XLSTAT 2008.7
October 23, 2008Addinsoft announces the availability of XLSTAT 2008.7 with a new module XLSTAT-Sim, for risk analysis and uncertainty management through simulations. This tool is essential for people who want to make decisions while taking into account uncertainties.
A new graphical tool that helps displaying error bars in Excel, completes XLSTAT-Pro. The results of discriminant analysis now include a chart to compare the group means.
Correspondence Analysis in Practice
September 11, 2008The second edition of Michael Greenacre's book Correspondence Analysis in Practice has been published by Chapman & Hall /CRC Press. This book has been completely rewritten compared to the first edition published in 1993.
This edition is characterized by a long section on computational aspects and Michael demonstrates the use of two software packages - R and XLSTAT - for correspondence analysis and its variants, multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA). You can read more about Michael's book at:
http://www.carme-n.org/?sec=books2
with ordering information at
http://www.carme-n.org/download/C6161FL.PDF
XLSTAT 2008.6: New features
July 17, 2008New features have been added to the most accurate and complete statistical solution for Excel. While the XLSTAT logistic regression outperforms most of the other mainstream software, an easy to use multinomial logistic regression has just been added to XLSTAT-Pro. XLSTAT-Life is enriched by unbeaten ROC curves and sensitivity and specificity features.
New book: Excel Basics to Blackbelt
May 19, 2008Excel Basics to Blackbelt by Dr. Elliot Bendoly, Associate Professor at the Goizueta Business School, Emory University, is recommended by Addinsoft, as it is designed to enhance the skills of Excel users, to enable them to reach to a level of mastery that will allow them to develop user interfaces and automated applications. To accomplish this, the major theme of the text is “the integration of the basic”; as a result readers will be able to develop decision support tools that are at once highly intuitive from a working-components perspective but also highly significant from the perspective of practical use and distribution. Applications integration discussed includes the use of MS MapPoint, XLSTAT and RISKOptimizer, as well as how to leverage Excel’s iteration mode, web queries, visual basic code, and interface development. There are ample examples throughout the text.
If you place you order before June 30 2008, you will can benefit from a 20% discount. Order form can be download by clicking here : Excel Basics to Blackbelt.
XLSTAT 2008.4: Innovation again
April 28, 2008Addinsoft continues its efforts to constantly innovate by offering news tools oriented towards applications.
After releasing the EasyPoints tool in March, useful to any Excel user, we bring a new and unique feature in XLSTAT-ADA: PLS-CCA. PLS-CCA is a new way to do canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) with an automatic variable selection based on PLS regression. Although CCA is mostly used by ecologists, we do think CCA should also be used in geo-marketing or in sensory analysis as it allows to relate measured dimensions to a contingency table.
Survival analysts will be pleased to see the Cox regression added to the XLSTAT-Life module. XLSTAT-Life users with an active maintenance plan have a free access to that upgrade.
Addinsoft wins price at INNOVATIONSPREIS 2008
April 11, 2008Addinsoft successfully participated to the INNOVATIONSPREIS 2008 in Germany. XLSTAT version 2008 convinced the jury by its added value, innovation and its ability to meet the needs of small and medium companies. Therefore it was shortlisted for the INNOVATIONSPREIS 2008.
XLSTAT was part of over 1600 participants in the contest lead by the German Minister of innovation Dr. Andreas Pinkwart.
More information (in German) on the INNOVATIONSPREIS 2008 can be found
here.
XLSTAT 2008.3
March 26, 2008Addinsoft announces XLSTAT version 2008.3, with two new features: a tool to perform multidimensional tests on means and variances, and EasyPoints a new utility to make it easy and straightforward to control the size, the color and the shape of points on an Excel chart.
XLSTAT 2008.2
February 25, 2008Addinsoft announces version 2008.2 of XLSTAT with
- a new option to manage the number of boxes in box plots,
- new classical and expert modes in XLSTAT-PLSPM,
- optional weighting of observation for student t tests,
- a new ribbon user interface in XLSTAT-3DPlot (available now in French, English, German and Japanese),
- improved support for categorical variables in XLSTAT-Pivot.
XLSTAT 2008
January 10, 2008Addinsoft announces the availability of XLSTAT 2008.1 a new version that brings new options, better integration with Vista and Excel 2007, and a new XLSTAT-SPC module designed for Six Sigma applications.
The price of the SPC module is discounted until January 31 ($65 instead of $195, or 50 Euros instead of 145 Euros). Don't miss that opportunity!
XLSTAT version 2007.8
November 16, 2007Version 2007.8 of XLSTAT is available and brings the following new features:
- One sample runs-test
- Partial correlations are now part of the similarity measures, and can be accessed via the XLSTAT_PartialCorrel function in Excel sheets.
- Improved XLSTAT-PLSPM
XLSTAT 2007.7
September 14, 2007Addinsoft announces the availability of version 2007.7 of XLSTAT. New features concern
- PCA with a new option to display biplots: XLSTAT can now automatically calculate the lengthening factor to apply to the factors in order to obtain an optimal display.
- AHC and k-means with the possibility to center/standardize the data either by columns or by rows, whether you are clustering columns or rows.
- Data sampling with a new option to sample data in a distribution given a series of user defined weights or probabilities.
The XLSTAT Forum reopens
July 23, 2007The XLSTAT discussion forum reopens. Organized by themes, it is aimed at:
- Allowing users to quickly find an answer to their questions,
- Encouraging discussions between users,
- Helping users getting the best out of the software,
- Supporting the users that want to be automatically prompted when new versions are available.
Some forums will only be accessible to registered users.
To register yourself and join the forum please go to:
http://forum.xlstat.com
XLSTAT 2007.6
July 20, 2007Version 2007.6 of XLSTAT is available and brings the following new features:
- Canonical correlation analysis has been added to the ADA module.
- The GPA function, available in both the MX and ADA is now more flexible as you can now easily select configurations that do not have the same number of dimensions. This is very useful in sensory data analysis.
- The GPA algorithm has been upgraded. It is significantly quicker and offers a new alternative approach for missing data : if a missing data is met for a given triplet object/configuration/dimension, the data are considered as missing for the couple object/configuration. Then, it is not necessary to consider the couple configuration/dimension or the whole object as being missing. This option has advantages that should be discribed soon in an article.
- The PLSPM module has been improved.
User Conference 2007
June 14, 2007The XLSTAT User Conference took place in Paris (France) at the “Maison de la Recherche” during the 7th and 8th June 2007. With a much larger number of attendees than initially planed, this conference was big success with an essentially European audience.
The presentations of internationally known experts like Michael Greenacre or Michel Tenenhaus allowed the users to enrich their knowledge of essential methods like Correspondence Analysis or PLS regression. Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi presented the PLS path modeling, that is now available in the module PLSPM of XLSTAT.
Finally the conference allowed the users to imagine new perspectives for using XLSTAT, especially with the version 2007 of Excel and with the possibility of using VBA to programmatically control XLSTAT.
XLSTAT 2007.5
May 23, 2007Addinsoft is proud to announce the release of XLSTAT version 2007.5. This version brings several new tools, new features, and a new module XLSTAT-PLSPM which is the first user friendly application for PLS path modeling, an alternative to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).
XLSTAT compatible with Vista
March 22, 2007
XLSTAT, the only statistical software that runs with Excel versions 97 till 2007, has been successfully tested on Vista, the latest Windows system.
This is also an opportunity to remind you that XLSTAT runs with all Windows versions starting with version 95, and on the Mac OS, on both PowerPC and Intel platforms.
XLSTAT 2007
January 5, 2007Addinsoft announces version 2007 of XLSTAT. While adding new functionalities (discretization, deduping, joins, Excel sheets management), this new version brings compatibility full with Office 2007 and Windows Vista, while remaining functional under the previous environments. Addinsoft is the only software company able to offer a complete statistical solution for Excel that is compatible with as many environments (PC, Mac, Excel from version 97 to 2007).
XLSTAT Version 2006.5
October 16, 2006Addinsoft announces the release of version 2006.5 of XLSTAT. Classification and regression trees are now available in the XLSTAT-Pro module. New options have been added to several tools, including the scatter plots and the discriminant analysis.
XLSTAT Version 2006.3
May 31, 2006Addinsoft announces the availability of XLSTAT version 2006.3. XLSTAT-ADA, a new module that includes the CCA, the GPA and the MFA, completes the offer. Furthermore, the help of the software is now available in German. Last, XLSTAT-MX is enriched by the MFA and a "Penalty analysis" tool.
XLSTAT Version 2006.2
April 3, 2006Addinsoft releases version 2006.2 of XLSTAT, for Windows and Mac OSX. The major new functionalities are the Cochran's Q test, the McNemar's test, and the Cochran-Armitage trend on proportion test.
XLSTAT 2006
January 4, 2006Addinsoft announces the availability of XLSTAT 2006, a true revolution in the small world of statistical add-ins for Excel. XLSTAT 2006 has been completely thought and written using new programming languages to make XLSTAT 2006 faster, even more reliable, easier to use, and open.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of what's new in XLSTAT 2006:
>> General software improvments:
- new dialog boxes: tabs allow to manage options for the computations and for the display of results.
- two new languages, portuguese and japanese.
- computations are now done in C++ allowing a significant increase in speed.
- possibility in many functions to use transposed tables to circumvent the limitation of Excel to 256 columns.
- possibility to use XLSTAT functions programmatically in VBA.
- possibility to access the XLSTAT C++ functions programmatically from any environment.
- more detailed help file.
- only one software needs to be downloaded (the unique exe file includes all the modules).
>> XLSTAT-Pro:
> Preparing data:
- Distribution sampling: new distributions
> Describing data:
- histograms: several histograms can be superimposed, and theoretical distributions can be plotted over the histograms.
- new tool: multicolinearity statistics (Tolerances, VIFs).
- new options in similarity/dissimilarity matrices.
> Visualizing data:
- strip-plots.
- more options for box plots.
- new function to automatically modify a chart so that it is orthonormal (aspect ratio = 1).
- new tool to merge two charts (for example, two curves available in 2 different charts).
- more options for Easylabels.
- new tool to modify the labels position.
> Analyzing data:
- Factor analysis: polychoric correlations, better charts, new rotation options, maximum likelihood option.
- PCA: polychoric correlations, better charts, new rotation options. New biplots.
- CA/ MCA: new methods for subset analysis. Non symetrical correspondence analysis.
- Discriminant analysis: better handling of multicolinearity cases, possiblity to include qualitative variables, stepwise options, cross-validation
- Hierarchical clustering: dendrograms can now ne modified, groups can be shown with different colors.
- K-Means : new clustering criteria.
> Modeling data:
- Distribution fitting: new distributions.
- Linear regression: better handling of multicolinearity cases, improved stepwise options.
- ANOVA/ANCOVA: simpler interface for the multiple comparisons tests and better management of interactions.
- Logistic regression: better handling of multicolinearity cases, PCR option, stepwise options, and multiple comparisons are possible when categorical variables have been selected.
> Association tests:
- Correlation maps can now be displayed after correlation tests.
- New association measures have been added.
- Mantel test has been improved.
> Parametric tests:
- possibility to run tests on several variables in one run.
- easier management of alternative hypotheses.
> Nonparametric tests:
- exact tests are now possible for most methods.
> Tools:
- easier to use DataFlagger.
- tool to remove hidden sheets with possibility to select only some of them.
- tool to find the min and/or the max in a sheet.
>> XLSTAT-3DPlot:
- New interface with many new options
>> XLSTAT-MX:
- PREFMAP: simplified interface, possibility to add contour plots
- GPA: permutation tests, new options to display results
>> XLSTAT-Time:
- Possibility to use dates to display the results, and confidence intervals in ARIMA can be used on long time series.
>> XLSTAT-Life:
- Comparison tests after Kaplan-Meier analyses and life table analyses can now be applied to more than two groups.
>> XLSTAT-Pivot:
- simplified interface, quicker computations.
Juergen Jaeger joins Addinsoft
January 2, 2006Juergen Jaeger joins Addinsoft as new associate. Juergen Jaeger, a Data Mining expert with a worldwide experience, former member of the IBM Data mining R&D team joins Addinsoft to coordinate the new developments and the technological partnerships. Before joining Addinsoft, Juergen Jaeger worked with IBM, Logmetrix, Kalima and Pertinence.
XLSTAT-PLS 1.8
July 22, 2005Addinsoft announces the release of version 1.8 of XLSTAT-PLS, the ideal solution for PLS and PCR regression with MS Excel.
New distributors
July 7, 2005Addinsoft announces it has signed distribution agreements with local distributors in Brazil and Korea.
XLSTAT-PLS 1.5
April 18, 2005Addinsoft announces the release of XLSTAT-PLS 1.5