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R is a software package for statistical computing and graphics. It has become a standard among statistical programming languages.
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Or watch this YouTube video by Roger Peng as he explains these topics in more depth:
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Alternatives
Other software alternatives you might consider are Minitab, MATLAB or Python. Microsoft Excel is not recommended: it cannot perform some of the calculations and plots that you will require to properly analyze data, and its statistical accuracy is very poor (the article documents several Excel functions that produce incorrect results).