his book is intended as a reference book for students, professionals and research

workers who need to apply statistical analysis to a large variety of practical

problems using STATISTICA, SPSS and MATLAB. The book chapters provide a

comprehensive coverage of the main statistical analysis topics (data descr iption,

statistical inference, classification and regression, factor analysis, survival data,

directional statistics) that one faces in practical problems, discussing their solutions

with the mentioned software packages.