Wizard as Teaching Tool

I’ve just begun to learn the many features of Wizard, but am already impressed with the ease of use and quality of analyses. I teach a graduate research design course in which students are expected to consult a statistician as they develop and conduct a study, but Wizard would allow some to examine their data and draw conclusions. I plan to recommend Wizard to my students when the new semester begins in September so they can get hands-on-experience with the statistical tests we talk about. The program provides both parametric and nonparametric solutions, and multiple and logistic regession. It does not do item analysis, interrater reliability, or Cronbach’s alpha (at least that I can find). You don’t choose which test to run; the program chooses based on the level of data (a really good thing for students with limited statistical trainiing)— prespecified as numerical, categorical, or survival times. I haven’t been able to figure out how to get the program to provide effect sizes or confidence intervals yet, but I’m still learning. Wizard is already a great program, and the developer appears to be working on additional enhancements (according to the blog section). I’m extremely satisfied with my purchase.

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