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Available Software

The Faculty of Health Sciences Postgraduate and Academic Support (PGAS) office has software programs to assist in analysing both quantitative and qualitative data. Stata and Statistica is available for quantitative data analysis. NVivo and MAXQDA is available for qualitative data analysis. These software programs can be accessed at the PGAS Writing Room on the third floor of the Phillip V Tobias Health Sciences Building. Please contact Ms Shae Lazarus, courses.health@wits.ac.za for more information.

Click on the name of each software program for more information. 

Stata Software

Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package developed by StataCorp for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting. It is used by researchers in many fields, including biomedicine, epidemiology, sociology and science.

StataNow/SE 19.5 one year license is available to the University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences staff/joint-staff and postgraduate students to install on their desktops or laptops. This software is compatible with Windows, Linux and macOS. The license expires on 27 December 2026.

Complete this to request for the Stata License. For more information, Please contact courses.health@wits.ac.za.

Statistica Software

Statistica is an advanced analytics software package originally developed by StatSoft and currently maintained by TIBCO Software Inc. Statistica provides data analysis, data management, statistics, data mining, machine learning, text analytics and data visualisation procedures.

Statistica 14.2 is available to the University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences staff/joint-staff and postgraduate students to install on their desktops or laptops. This software is only compatible with Windows. The license expires on 31 December 2026.

Complete this to request access to the Statistica license. Form more information, please contact courses.health@wits.ac.za .

MAXQDA Software

MAXQDA is a qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research software program developed and distributed by VERBI Software based in Berlin, Germany. MAXQDA is designed for the use in computer-assisted qualitative and mixed methods data, text and multimedia analysis in academic, scientific, and business institutions.

The software programme is available in the PGAS Writing Room on the third floor of the Phillip V Tobias Health Sciences Building. No License can be provided.

Please contact Ms Shae Lazarus, courses.health@wits.ac.za for more information. 

 

 

NVivo Software

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA) computer software package produced by QSR International. NVivo helps qualitative researchers to organize, analyze and find insights in unstructured or qualitative data like interviews, open-ended survey responses, journal articles, social media and web content, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required.

The software programme is available in the PGAS Writing Room on the third floor of the Phillip V Tobias Health Sciences Building. No License can be provided.

Please contact Ms Shae Lazarus, courses.health@wits.ac.za for more information. 

 

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