Statistical and mathematical software available at IU

At Indiana University, the UITS Research Applications and Deep Learning group supports a variety of statistical, mathematical, and geospatial software packages, both open source and commercial, by providing software licensing and distribution, along with support and consulting services for users. UITS Research Applications and Deep Learning also makes software available for use in the Student Technology Centers (STCs) at IU Bloomington and IU Indianapolis, on IU's research supercomputers, and via IUanyWare.

Since July 2022, all of the software packages in the following table are available to students, faculty, and staff without fee.

Research Applications and Deep Learning software	Online support	Availability
Geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing software
ArcGIS is a framework developed by Esri that enables you to deploy GIS functionality and business logic in desktops, servers (including the web), and mobile devices.	Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) Complete the GIS Help form Knowledge Base	STCs, IUanyWare, IUware
ImageMapper is a wizard-based extension for ArcGIS that allows you to create interactive maps for the web.	alta4 Complete the GIS Help form
Statistical software
R is an extremely flexible programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.	R Project Knowledge Base	STCs, IUanyWare, IU research supercomputers
SAS (Statistical Analysis Software) is a data analysis system that integrates data management and programming with statistical, econometric, and many other methods.	SAS Knowledge Base	STCs, IUanyWare, IU research supercomputers
SAS JMP is a package focused on exploratory data analysis and visualization.	SAS JMP	STCs, IUanyWare
SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a popular statistical package that performs various statistical data analyses.	SPSS software SPSS Statistics Knowledge Base	STCs, IUanyWare, IUware, Quartz
Stata is a statistical software package that supports various statistical and econometric methods, and enhanced features for data and matrix manipulation.	Stata Knowledge Base	STCs, IUanyWare, Quartz
Mathematical software
MATLAB handles numerical calculations and high-quality graphics, provides a convenient interface for built-in state-of-the-art subroutine libraries, and incorporates a high-level programming language.	MathWorks, Inc. Knowledge Base	STCs, IUanyWare, IU research supercomputers, Download
Mathematica is an interactive system for doing mathematical computation that handles numerical, graphic, and symbolic calculations.	Wolfram Research, Inc. Knowledge Base	STCs, IUanyWare, IU research supercomputers
Other software
NVivo is a special purpose statistical software package for qualitative analyses.	Lumivero Knowledge Base	Download

If you have questions about using statistical and mathematical software at Indiana University, contact the UITS Research Applications and Deep Learning team.