Software

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)