The Department of Statistics of the University of Colombo offers a number of degree progams including a special degrees on Statistics and a joint special degree with the University of Colombo School of Computing titled 'Statistics with Computer Science'.

The central statistical agency in Sri Lanka, the Department of Census and Statistics is responsible for the collection, compilation and dissemination of all statistical data needed for government planning and policy formulation.

One of most popular open source alternatives for statistical computing and graphics, R has gained many followers in the past few years and has more or less superceded the S language developed by Lucent technologies.

SPSS (originally an acronym for Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a powerful all-inclusive program used for statistical analysis.

SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is an integrated system of software, which enables the user to perform everything from data entry to data mining and warehousing.

Minitab is an easy-to-use package that can be used to perform many statistical functions. It was originally developed in 1972 by the Pennysylvania State University.

S Plus is a commercial implementation of the S language and provides full-featured object oriented programming capabilities and advanced analytical algorithms.

A useful tool to determine how many people you need to interview in order to get results that reflect the target population as precisely as needed.