# NCSS Pass Reviews
**Vendor:** NCSS  
**Category:** [Statistical Analysis Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/statistical-analysis)  
**Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 3
## About NCSS Pass
PASS software provides sample size tools for over 795 statistical test and confidence interval scenarios - more than double the capability of any other sample size software.




## NCSS Pass Reviews
  ### 1. PASS Offers Great Power and Sample Size Estimation Power, but is Expensive

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Samantha T. | Senior Biostatistician, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2024

**What do you like best about NCSS Pass?**

It has so many different types of power and sample size estimation methodologies programmed in and provides great output when you run a power calculation, including interpretation, references, and descriptions of all procedures.

**What do you dislike about NCSS Pass?**

It is expensive, but almost required if you work in the clinical trials setting.

**What problems is NCSS Pass solving and how is that benefiting you?**

PASS offers an extensive library of power and sample size estimation methdologies. It replaces the need to use SAS PROC POWER, GPOWER, and other power and sample size estimation tools in other statistical software (R, STATA, etc.). It provides so many options and great documentation that it is pretty easy to use and can be adapted to any novel clincial trial or study design. It also mostly removes the need to write simulations by hand to estimate power, as simulation is incorporated into many of the estimation options within PASS.

  ### 2. PASS Tool

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ameeta P. | Senior Information Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2022

**What do you like best about NCSS Pass?**

Easy to use, results in seconds for power and sample size. The demo videos are very helpful to learn. There are multiple test which can be used for power analysis.

**What do you dislike about NCSS Pass?**

Maybe Cost. A little costly yearly license and then upgrade too. Nothing other that I can think of as I am still learning many functions within the tool, exploring phase.

**Recommendations to others considering NCSS Pass:**

Highly recommended to save the time of coding.

**What problems is NCSS Pass solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's helpful for all kinds of calculations and tests used for ICC, Power and Sample size calculation. It has saved my hours of coding work. As I just have to click and run results in PASS it saved intensive work needed for coding the data otherwise.

  ### 3. NCSS Pass Review 1

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2022

**What do you like best about NCSS Pass?**

The interface is really easy to use and the capabilities of the system are really helpful

**What do you dislike about NCSS Pass?**

At times I feel like there could be greater organization in the options that are available so its easier to understand and read

**What problems is NCSS Pass solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Solving problems relating to organizing clinical trial information which is really helpful for my team and allows us to get deeper insight into business performance.



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## NCSS Pass Features
**Administration**
- Quality Control
- Data Sampling
- Collaboration

**Capabilities**
- Data Visualization
- Survival Analysis
- Risk Data Attributes
- Cost Analysis

**Methodology**
- ANOVA Support
- Regression
- Time Series Analysis

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization

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