MedCalc

MedCalc is a statistical software package designed for the biomedical sciences.^[2][3][4] It has an integrated spreadsheet for data input and can import files in several formats (Excel, SPSS, CSV, ...).

MedCalc

Developer(s)	MedCalc Software
Stable release	22.001 / May 12, 2023; 23 months ago (2023-05-12)[1]
Operating system	Windows
Type	Statistical analysis
License	proprietary
Website	www.medcalc.org

MedCalc includes basic parametric and non-parametric statistical procedures and graphs such as descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Mann–Whitney test, Wilcoxon test, χ² test, correlation, linear as well as non-linear regression, logistic regression, and multivariate statistics.^[5]

Survival analysis includes Cox regression (Proportional hazards model) and Kaplan–Meier survival analysis.

Procedures for method evaluation and method comparison include ROC curve analysis,^[6] Bland–Altman plot,^[7] as well as Deming and Passing–Bablok regression.^[8]

The software also includes reference interval estimation,^[9] meta-analysis and sample size calculations.

The first DOS version of MedCalc was released in April 1993 and the first version for Windows was available in November 1996.

Version 15.2 introduced a user-interface in English, Chinese (simplified and traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian and Spanish.

Reviews

• Stephan C, Wesseling S, Schink T, Jung K. “Comparison of eight computer programs for receiver-operating characteristic analysis.” Clinical Chemistry 2003;49:433-439. doi:10.1373/49.3.433
• Lukic IK. “MedCalc Version 7.0.0.2. Software Review.” Croatian Medical Journal 2003;44:120-121.
• Garber C. “MedCalc Software for Statistics in Medicine. Software review.” Clinical Chemistry, 1998;44:1370.
• Petrovecki M. “MedCalc for Windows. Software Review.” Croatian Medical Journal, 1997;38:178.

See also

• List of statistical packages
• Comparison of statistical packages