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HEC-SSP is an integrated system of software, designed for interactive use in a multi-tasking environment. The system is comprised of a graphical user interface (GUI), separate statistical analysis components, data storage and management capabilities, mapping, graphics, and reporting tools.

Over a period of many years, the Hydrologic Engineering Center has supported a variety of statistical packages that perform frequency analysis and other statistical computations. Historically, the programs that received the most use within the Corps of Engineers were HEC-FFA (Flood Frequency Analysis) and STATS (Statistical Analysis of Time Series Data). FFA incorporates Bulletin 17B procedures that have been adopted by the Corps for flow frequency analysis. The STATS software package is used for statistical analysis of time series data. STATS can provide either analytical or graphical frequency analysis, specified by the user. STATS has the capability of computing monthly and annual maximum, minimum, and mean values along with computing a volume-duration analysis. Two other packages that used to receive a lot of use within the Corps of Engineers are REGFRQ (Regional Frequency Computation) and MLRP (Multiple Linear Regression Program). REGFRQ performs regional frequency analysis and MLRP is a multiple linear regression analysis tool.

The goal of HEC-SSP is to ultimately combine all of the statistical analyses capabilities of HEC-FFA, STATS, REGFRQ and MLRP. The current version of HEC-SSP supports performing flood flow frequency analyses based on Bulletin 17B Guidelines, general frequency analyses, volume frequency analyses, duration analyses, coincident frequency analyses, and curve combination analyses. New features and additional capabilities will be added in future releases.