<h1>Evolution of Statistical Software and Quantitative Methods</h1>
<h2>Brandon LeBeau & Ariel M. Aloe</h2>
<h3>University of Iowa</h3>
# Rationale
- Extension of work done by Robert Muenchen (http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/).
+ Focus is on statistical software
+ Addition of quantitative methods
+ Particularly interested in the interaction.
- Questions of Interest:
+ Exploring which software is popular in published research.
+ How many empirical analyses cite software?
+ Any patterns in software use with quantitative methods?
# Methods
- Research synthesis methods were used
- Web of Knowledge was used to pull in citations for 12 social science journals
- 1995 to 2018
- EndNote's "Find Text" feature was used to pull in PDFs of all articles from the journals
- `pdfsearch` R package was used to perform keyword searching.
# Software Keywords
| Keyword Group | Keywords |
|---------------|----------|
| AMOS | AMOS |
| IRT | BILOG; BILOG-MG; IRT PRO; MULTILOG; PARSCALE |
| R | CRAN; R-project; R Project; R Core Team; R software; RStudio |
| HLM | HLM [0-9]; HLM[0-9] |
| Java | Java |
| SAS | SAS; SAS Institute; JMP |
| LISREL | LISREL |
| Mplus | Mplus; M-Plus |
| Python | Python |
| SPSS | SPSS; SPSS Statistics |
| STATA | STATA |
| Other | Matlab; Scala; Systat; Statistica; Tableau; Minitab |
# Method Keywords
| Keyword Group | Keywords |
|---------------|----------|
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance; ANOVA; Analysis of Covariance; ANCOVA; MANOVA; Multivariate Analysis of Variance; Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance; RM-ANOVA |
| IRT | IRT; Item Response Theory |
| CFA | CFA; Confirmatory Factor Analysis |
| Chi-Square | Chi-square( analysis)?; Nonparametric Analysis |
| Cluster Analysis | Cluster Analysis; Hierarchical Cluster Analysis |
| t-test | Dependent Samples t-test; one-sample t-test; two-sample t-test |
| EFA | EFA; Exploratory Factor Analysis |
| GAM | GAM; Generalized additive models |
# Method Keywords Continued
| Keyword Group | Keywords |
|---------------|----------|
| Linear Mixed Model | LMM; HLM; Multilevel Model; Multi-level Model; Hierarchical Linear Model; General(ized)? Linear Mixed Model |
| Linear Model | Linear Regression; Multiple Linear Regression; Multiple Regression; General(ized)? Linear Model |
| Growth | Growth Model; Latent Growth Model; LGM |
| SEM | Latent Variable Modeling; SEM; Structural Equation Modeling |
| Logistic Regression | Logistic Regression; Multinomial Regression; Multinomial Logistic Regression; Ordinal Regression |
| meta-analysis | meta-analysis; meta analysis |
| Non-Linear Regression | Non-Linear Regression; Nonlinear Regression |
| Propensity Score | Propensity Score Analysis; Propensity score matching |
# Journals and Number of Articles
# Articles with at least one match
# Software Keywords
# Method Keywords
# Software and Methods
# Software over Time
# Model over Time
