MedCalc is a statistical software package designed for the biomedical sciences. It has an integrated spreadsheet for data input and can import files in several formats (Excel

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...

, CSV

Comma-separated values

A comma-separated values file stores tabular data in plain-text form. As a result, such a file is easily human-readable ....

, ...). It includes ROC curve analysis, Kaplan-Meier survival plots, Bland-Altman plot

Bland-Altman plot

A Bland-Altman plot in analytical chemistry and biostatistics is a method of data plotting used in analyzing the agreement between two different assays. It is identical to a Tukey mean-difference plot, which is what it is still known as in other fields, but was popularised in medical statistics by...

, as well as Deming

Deming regression

In statistics, Deming regression, named after W. Edwards Deming, is an errors-in-variables model which tries to find the line of best fit for a two-dimensional dataset...

 and Passing & Bablok regression for method comparison.

The first DOS

DOS

DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...

 version of MedCalc was released in April 1993 and the first version for Windows was available in November 1996. On 7 March 2007, version 9.3 obtained the Certified for Windows Vista

Windows Vista

Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...

logo.

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.
• 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.

External links

• MedCalc Homepage