TIBCO Spotfire S+® version 8.1 is the first S-PLUS® language product release from TIBCO.  S+® is the only statistical programming platform that delivers a fully integrated development environment, a commercially supported analytic packaging system, and the ability to scale a desktop to manipulate gigabyte class data sets.

S+ enables statisticians & business analysts to prototype, test & deploy analytics much faster than with alternative statistical modelling environments.  It delivers a wider range of robust statistics tools, as well as improved deployment and integration capabilities that help business analysts and researchers make informed and reliable decisions at critical points across the organisation.

NEW FEATURES IN S+ 8.1

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	FlexBayes Package provides tools for modeling data using the Bayesian paradigm for statistical inference. Bayesian modeling can create more realistic models, provide a natural way to address missing data & take advantage of prior information when doing analysis. It can be used to create better clinical trial designs, improve portfolio management & enhance many other applications. FlexBayes has inbuilt examples of Bayesian response-adaptive clinical trial design, safety data analysis and hierarchical generalized linear models
	Association Rules help uncover relationships between variables in large data sets, most commonly to detect purchase patterns (Market Basket Analysis), but also in many other areas, such as analysing web site usage. S+ 8.1 provides Association Rules as part of the bigdata library.
	Resample Package offers a variety of resampling techniques, such as bootstrap & permutation tests, which enable the use of standard statistics on smaller data sets, provide more flexible modelling options, and offer graphical & numerical diagnostics for standard statistical assumptions. Resample includes bootstrap tilting which provides very accurate intervals & requires fewer samples than other methods.
	Wavelets Package provides advanced signal and image analysis, time series analysis, statistical signal estimation, and data compression analysis. Formerly sold as a separate module, Wavelets is now included in S+.
	SpatialStats Package enables the exploration and modeling of spatially correlated data, useful in many areas such as environmental sciences, mining and petroleum engineering, natural resources management, geography, epidemiology, and demographics. Formerly sold as a separate module, SpatialStats is now included in S+.
	EnvironmentalStats Package available for Windows, provides a set of powerful functions for performing graphical and statistical analyses of environmental data. It’s useful for anyone who has to make sense of environmental data, including hydrologists, soil scientists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, environmental engineers and consultants, hazardous and solid waste site managers, and regulatory agency analysts and enforcement officers. Formerly sold as a separate module, EnvironmentalStats is now included in S+.

NEW DEPLOYMENT & INTEGRATION OPTIONS
 

	Remote Script Execution Scripts written in S+ 8.1 can be sent to S+ Server for execution using an interface in the Workbench or directly using S+ functions. This enables you to offload computationally intensive scripts to a server & to analyse data which cannot be downloaded off a server.
	Data Access Enhancements S+ 8.1 provides functions for importing & exporting data via JDBC, opening up many new sources of data which can be analysed. It also includes many other improvements to data access, including the ability to import/export data for Excel 2007.
	RTF Reporting The rtftools package enables the creation of highly-formatted reports containing S+ tables and graphics for viewing in Microsoft Word.
	Package System Enhancements S+ 8.1 provides many enhancements to the package system, including a menu item for downloading & updating packages as well as support for exporting & creating user interfaces for packages.

BUNDLE with TIBCO Spotfire Professional
 

S+ 8.1 is also available bundled with TIBCO Spotfire Professional, which enables business users across the enterprise to quickly & easily visualize and interact with their data to gain new insights and make better decisions. With Spotfire® Professional, S+ users can visualise & communicate the results of their modeling efforts in powerful new ways.

And Much More...

S+ 8.1 also includes many quality enhancements, performance improvements for large data handling, usability enhancements for the S+ Workbench & increased compatibility with R, making it even easier to create packages which can be run in both R and S+.