Software

From Quantitative Politics

[edit] Software for Quantitative Political Science

• Statistical Software
  • See http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/ for an extensive portal with links and examples
  • R-Package -- Open Source version of S (and S-Plus)
  • S-Plus e.g., http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/spoetry.html
  • Stata
  • SAS
  • GeoDa --- Luc Anselin's Spatial Analysis Toolkit (free) https://geoda.uiuc.edu/default.php
• Mathematics Packages
  • Mathematica
  • MatLab
  • GAUSS
• Simulation Software
  • Major Packages
    • Any-Logic -- A commercial simulation package that allows mathematical, systems dynamics, discrete event, and agent-based simulation components all in the same model.
    • [RePast] -- An open source, very advanced agent-based simulation package.
    • [NetLogo] -- An open source, user-friendly (and less powerful) agent-based simulation package
    • [Swarm] -- One of the original packages, with unique features
  • Lists of simulation software and brief review:
    • http://www.geosimulation.org/geosim/abms.htm
    • http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/acecode.htm
    • Tobias, R., and C. Hofmann (2004) “Evaluation of free Java-libraries for social-scientific agent based simulation” Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 7(1). http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/1/6.html
  • Graphics oriented packages, also used for simulation
    • Delta3d http://www.delta3d.org/index.php
    • Breve http://www.spiderland.org/ (developed for Alifers)