WINKS

Windows KwikStat (WINKS) is a statistical analysis software package. It was first marketed in 1988 as a shareware program under the name KWIKSTAT by the Cedar Hill–based company TexaSoft for DOS. It was originally programmed in GW-BASIC and was capable of calculating chi-squares, crosstabs, F-distributions, five-number summaries, medians, p-values, regressions, standard deviations, and variances. It was ported to Windows in 1996, where it was given the name Windows KwikStat, or simply WINKS.

Starting with version 4.0 of KWIKSTAT and carried onto WINKS, the software was sold in two editions: the Basic Edition includes data handling and statistical analysis that include basic statistical procedures and the Professional Edition include a number of more advanced procedures. A special Time Series version of WINKS is available in support of the book Applied Time Series Analysis from CRC Press.

Major statistical procedures

Major statistical procedures included in KWIKSTAT and WINKS include:

Descriptive statistics
Grubbs outlier test
t-tests: single, independent, and paired
Multiple regression, simple, stepwise, polynomial, all-possible
ANOVA, simple, multi-way with multiple comparisons, 95% CI
Analysis of covariance
Repeated measures ANOVA
Correlation: Pearson, Spearman & Partial
Mantel–Haenzel
Non-parametric tests
Kruskal–Wallis
Mann–Whitney
Friedman's test (repeated measures)
Multiple comparisons on most group comparison tests
Dunnett's test
Cross-tabulation, chi-square, likelihood ratio
Goodness-of-fit
z-scores
Survival analysis
Bland–Altman plots
Inter-rater reliability
Kappa (weighted)
Fisher's exact test 2×2 tables
Cramér's V, phi
McNemar's, Cochran's Q
Logistic regression
Odds ratios
Sensitivity and specificity
ROC curves
Time series analysis
Statistical and QC charts and graphs
Forest plots

References

↑ Rosch, Winn L. (November 14, 1988). "Kwikstat: Numbers Game Winner". PC Week. Vol. 5, no. 46. Ziff-Davis. p. 122 – via Gale.
↑ Matthews, Noah (June 22, 1996). "Most top shareware programs require Windows". Austin American-Statesman. p. D7 – via Newspapers.com.
1 2 Morgan, Walter T. (February 1998). "A Review of Eight Statistics Software Packages for General Use". The American Statistician. 52 (1). American Statistical Association: 70–82. doi:10.2307/2685572 – via JSTOR.
1 2 Lewis, R. Barry (May 1995). "KWIKSTAT 4.0: A Full-Featured, Low-Cost Statistics Package for DOS". Cultural Anthropology Methods. 7 (2). SAGE Publications: 6–7. doi:10.1177/1525822X950070020401open_in_new.
↑ Anonymous (February 23, 1998). "Software/Database Update". Chemical & Engineering News. 76 (8). American Chemical Society: 70 – via ACS Publications.
↑ Sengupta, Arindam (August 4, 2014). "Book Reviews: Applied Time Series Analysis by Wayne A. Woodward, Henry L. Gray, Alan C. Elliott". International Statistical Review. 82 (2). John Wiley & Sons: 322–323. doi:10.1111/insr.12068_11.

External links

Official website

[1] Rosch, Winn L. (November 14, 1988). "Kwikstat: Numbers Game Winner". PC Week. Vol. 5, no. 46. Ziff-Davis. p. 122 – via Gale.

[2] Matthews, Noah (June 22, 1996). "Most top shareware programs require Windows". Austin American-Statesman. p. D7 – via Newspapers.com.

[morgan-3] 1 2 Morgan, Walter T. (February 1998). "A Review of Eight Statistics Software Packages for General Use". The American Statistician. 52 (1). American Statistical Association: 70–82. doi:10.2307/2685572 – via JSTOR.

[ff-4] 1 2 Lewis, R. Barry (May 1995). "KWIKSTAT 4.0: A Full-Featured, Low-Cost Statistics Package for DOS". Cultural Anthropology Methods. 7 (2). SAGE Publications: 6–7. doi:10.1177/1525822X950070020401open_in_new.

[5] Anonymous (February 23, 1998). "Software/Database Update". Chemical & Engineering News. 76 (8). American Chemical Society: 70 – via ACS Publications.

[6] Sengupta, Arindam (August 4, 2014). "Book Reviews: Applied Time Series Analysis by Wayne A. Woodward, Henry L. Gray, Alan C. Elliott". International Statistical Review. 82 (2). John Wiley & Sons: 322–323. doi:10.1111/insr.12068_11.