Available on Mac, Windows, and Unix platform. This package is free for educational users. This is a commercial symbolic algebra package that is comparable to Mathematica and Maple. Maple One of the most popular mathematical processing languages. While this is not a statistical package, it is often used to teach statistical and econometric concepts.
Software libraries are available for many applications.
Mathematica The major competitor to Maple. Matlab Another mathematical processing language. This is a general econometrics package, developed by B. and M. Hashem Pesaran, for windows platforms. One of the most popular microcomputer based packages for econometric work. Minitab A commonly used package for teaching basic statistics and econometrics.