Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:29:26 -0500
From: seb@pstat.com (Seb)
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: P-STAT press release


Release Date:  December 9, 1999
Contact:       Sebbie Buhler   
email:         seb@pstat.com
Telephone:     609-466-9200


P-STAT offers free Linux version via the Internet.

Hopewell, NJ.   P-STAT, Inc. announced a free version of the 
P-STAT software for Intel PCs running Linux which can be 
downloaded from pstat.com. This free Linux version is a 
fully functional version of the P-STAT software that allows 
a file size of 500 variables and 5000 cases of data-perfect 
for teaching or real-world applications with limited data 
requirements.  Details along with instructions to download 
the free Linux edition of P-STAT can be found at 
http://www.pstat.com/linux.html . 

This special Linux edition of P-STAT may be ordered on 
CD-ROM for $20.00 including first class postage in the US, 
or airmail overseas. The CD-ROM contains the P-STAT software 
for Intel Linux along with the ten volumes of P-STAT 
documentation and master index in Acrobat (.pdf) format.  

The P-STAT software combines data and file management, data 
entry and editing with report writing and statistical 
procedures. P-STAT is unique among packages with extensive 
statistical capability in its character handling. A single 
field can contain 999 alphanumeric characters and the software 
provides many functions to manipulate these strings.The 
commercially licensed version offers seven sizes, ranging 
from 3,000 (the default size) up to 250,000 variables in a 
single case (record), and P-STAT has no limits on the 
number of cases in a file.  Multiple files may be created 
and manipulated (joined, concatenated, separated, etc.)

P-STAT has an international clientele using the software 
for a variety of applications including medical and environmental 
research, quality assurance and statistical process control, 
and market and survey research. Market research and survey 
analysis needs are met by a powerful crosstabulation procedure 
which handles multi-way tables, multiple-response items, 
nets and subtotals, significance tests, extensive control 
over labelling and titles, with PostScript output to provide 
camera ready results.

P-STAT is supported on a variety of Linux operating systems 
for Intel PCs (RedHat, SUSE, Caldera, etc.), along with PCs 
running Windows (3.x, 95, 98, NT); UNIX workstations (Sun, 
Data General, etc.); and on computers running proprietary 
operating systems such as DEC Alpha OpenVMS, and UNISYS 
1100 Clearpath. 

The P-STAT program was begun in the early 1960s. The first 
User's Manual was published in 1964 by Princeton University 
Press. Roald Buhler was a technical staff member at the 
Princeton University Computer Center from 1963-1967, and 
Director of the Computer Center from 1966 until 1970. He is now 
Vice President and Director of Programming at P-STAT, Inc. 
Shirrell Buhler was a research assistant at Princeton's Office 
of Population Research from 1966-1968, and part of the technical 
staff at Princeton's Computer Center from 1969-1979. She is 
now president of P-STAT, Inc. The Buhlers left Princeton 
University in 1979 to form P-STAT, Incorporated, a woman-owned 
and operated small business. 

P-STAT, Inc. is located at 230 Lambertville-Hopewell Road, in 
Hopewell New Jersey and can be reached on the internet at 
www.pstat.com  or  www.p-stat.com, or by telephone at 609-466-9200.

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