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Product Review - Total Access
Statistics
Another useful Access add-in from the folks at FMS. This one is
focused on helping you perform statistical analyses of data stored in
Microsoft Access databases (it doesn't work in Access projects, but
since it can analyze linked tables from an Access database, that's not a
significant limitation). As with other FMS products, TA Statistics
simple to use. A wizard walks you through the steps of choosing an
analysis type, selecting a table or query to analyze, and specifying an
output table. You then tell TA statistics to run the scenario and off it
goes to look at your data.
The results come back as an Access table containing the information
you've requested. The product supports almost 20 different statistical
analyses, from simple things like percentiles and data description to
more advanced techniques such as ANOVA and Chi-square correlations. A
nice touch is that the details of each scenario are automatically saved,
making it easy to calculate new results when data is added or changed.
For the developer, there's a programmatic interface that lets you
call the statistical engine directly, with or without showing the user
interface. The price includes a runtime license so that you can add
statistics functionality to your own applications.
If you're doing any sort of scientific or engineering
number-crunching and your data is available to Access (either as native
Jet data or as linked tables), TA Statistics can save you a bunch of
work.
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