Pros: Statistix is my 'go to' program for most initial analyses of experiment data. For me, its best features are easy access to graphical looks at the data and the 'Omit, select, restore' command. I always tell students, 'before you run any statistical analyses, GRAPH your data,' and Statistix makes that really easy. Although I don't use Statistix to produce figures for publications, I'll often model my publication graphs on those quickly drawn with Statistix. I find 'Omit/select/restore' incredibly useful for exploratory analyses because it allows me to partition data sets and focus analyses only on portions of them WITHOUT having to save a multitude of partitioned files under a large number of different file names. I also like the very clear menu layout, and the ability easily to run both parametric and non-parametric analyses, and to transform data. The selection of ANOVA designs is very good, as is the selection of post-hoc tests offered. Another feature that facilitates explorations of data by regression are tools such as 'Best-subset linear regressions' that allow finding the independent variables that explain the most variance. The best experience that I've had with Statistix was using it to re-analyze a student's analysis of a complicated three-factor, blocked design that had been analyzed with 'R.' Statistix refused to run the analysis, giving the message that two treatments were aliased, which we hadn't realized (and 'R' did not reveal).