What is Minitab and its uses in statistics? statistical data analysis by Minitab.

Minitab is a world’s most popular software for statistical analysis. At first, it designed in 1972 to help the professors who trainee statistics courses. It is a statistics package. Minitab was developed at the Pennsylvania State University by researchers Barbara F. Ryan, Thomas A. Ryan, Jr., and Brian L. Joiner

 Now it is for all kind of people. Anyone can use this software. For calculate descriptive statistics, Minitab is a good software for all kind of analysts. For data analysis Minitab is the world’s most powerful software.

The latest version of the software is Minitab 16.

       i.            That is available in 7 languages:

     ii.            English

  iii.            French

  iv.            German

     v.            Japanese

  vi.            Korean

vii.            Simplified Chinese

viii.            Spanish

Uses of Minitab:

1.    Data and File Management

2.    Spreadsheet for better data analysis

3.    Power and Sample Size

4.    Analysis of Variance.

5.    Regression Analysis

6.    Tables and Graphs

7.    Multivariate Analysis

8.    Time Series and Forecasting

9.    Statistical Process Control

10.   Measurement System Analysis

Data Analysis by SPSS (Statistical Package for The Social Science), The Popular Data Analysis Software.

SPSS is popular software in all over the world. We can analyze any kind of data by using SPSS. It is the most popular software in the world. Data analyst are use SPSS for there time of data analysis.

First IBM Company developed SPSS. From this time SPSS is use in all kind of data analysis in popularly. The latest version of SPSS is SPSS-20. We can store data in SPSS data file. Further we can organize data by SPSS. We are able to analyze statistical data by using SPSS. Calculating descriptive statistics by SPSS is easier then other data analysis software. We can find mean, variance, standard deviation, mode maximum, minimum, skewenes, and kurtosis of any data set. Drawing chart, bar diagram, plot dataset in chart are simple in SPSS. We can combine two set of data by SPSS. Calculating correlation and fit regression model are so comfortable for any types of analysts. Time series analyses and analysis of attribute is very easy in SPSS. Prediction of data is best if it completed by SPSS. Output results are published in other window. From output window, we can copy output result in Microsoft word package. Or we can show results by using power pint.

So, we can say SPSS is perfect in all kind of data analysis. Data analysis is easy by using SPSS. We may use SPSS for our data analysis.