Statistical and mathematical software available at IU

Important:

Amos and Maple will not be licensed by Indiana University beyond June 30, 2023. For help with the transition, contact the UITS Research Applications and Deep Learning team.

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 IUPUI, 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) Contact GIS Knowledge Base	STCs, IUanyWare, IUware
ImageMapper is a wizard-based extension for ArcGIS that allows you to create interactive maps for the web.	alta4 Contact GIS
Statistical software
Amos is a statistical software package that estimates structural equation models for manifest and latent variables.	IBM SPSS Amos Knowledge Base	STCs, IUanyWare
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 Science) is a popular statistical package that performs various statistical data analyses.	SPSS software SPSS Statistics Knowledge Base	STCs, IUanyWare, IUware, Carbonate, 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, Carbonate, Quartz
Mathematical software
Maple is a general-purpose computer algebra system that is designed to solve mathematical problems and produce high-quality technical graphics.	Waterloo Maple Inc. Knowledge Base	STCs, IUanyWare, Carbonate, Quartz, Big Red 200
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.	Qualitative Data Analysis Software 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.