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Hello As a medical statistician, I have strong support for the use of confidence intervals in the reporting of clinical research findings. However, I am also conscious that medical graduates may lose their access to licensed software previously used in their undergraduate learning to support such activities. For example, both Minitab and Confidence Interval Analysis are possible choices for non-specialists and often supported by University licenses. However, do medical graduates have an incentive to obtain their own licenses for such software on entering the workplace? I would be interested to learn from medical graduates as to their personal choices in the above context and indeed, as to whether or not such persons have found freeware sufficiently reliable and easy to use to adopt in their own working practices specifically for obtaining confidence intervals (not for statistics more generally). This query is also of relevance to the management of courses for distance learners, not all of whom may have access to a licensed statistical package for calculating confidence intervals but still need to perform the calculations to meet programme requirements. Many thanks in advance Best wishes Margaret