About crosstabs.com

crosstabs.com is a free, browser-based tool for cross-tabulation and categorical statistics. No signup, no install — you upload a spreadsheet and get publishable crosstabs and tests in seconds.

What it is

A cross-tabulation (or contingency table) shows how two categorical variables relate. crosstabs.com builds these tables from your CSV or XLSX file and computes the statistics researchers actually report: chi-square, Fisher's exact test, Cramér's V, phi, the odds ratio, and a range of ordinal and proportional-reduction-in-error measures. The full list of calculators and guides covers each one with formulas and worked examples.

Why it's free, and why that matters

Most cross-tabulation tools are paywalled, install-heavy, or built for specialists (SPSS, GraphPad, R). crosstabs.com is the opposite: instant, browser-based, and free. Students, analysts, journalists, and researchers can run a proper test without a license or a download — and because nothing is gated, it is easy to recommend and easy to cite.

How the statistics are computed and verified

Every statistic is computed in the browser using standard, published formulas. The calculations are covered by an automated test suite, including exact hand-computed values and naive-reference cross-checks. Selected core cases are also compared publicly with SciPy; this is evidence for those cases, not a claim of blanket equivalence with every statistical package. Where an assumption matters — small expected counts, Fisher's exact applying only to 2×2 tables, weighting caveats — the workspace surfaces a warning rather than hiding it.

  • Formulas follow standard references (Pearson chi-square, Fisher's exact via the hypergeometric distribution, Cramér's V, and the usual ordinal measures).
  • Selected Pearson, Fisher, Cramér's V, and Somers' d cases are checked against a public SciPy reference manifest.
  • Assumption violations are flagged in the workspace and in exports.

See the methods page for calculation behavior and review status, and the validation page for the exact parity scope and limitations.

Privacy

Your data is parsed and analyzed locally in your browser. Spreadsheet files are not uploaded to a server for the core analysis. Crosstabs does not run a hosted model or project service. The public MCP accepts only bounded aggregate frequency tables and fixed evidence lookups; private files belong in the browser or local MCP. See privacy and data processing for details.

Who it's for

  • Students learning the chi-square test, effect sizes, and how to read a crosstab.
  • Survey and market researchers cross-tabulating responses with banners and weights.
  • Analysts and journalists who need a quick, defensible categorical analysis.
  • Educators who want a free tool to share with a class.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or a formula you'd like double-checked? Email support@crosstabs.com. The reporting checklist is on the support page.