MS Excel is a very common tool to perform statistics analysis, but I just wonder if Excel is the best in the market or if it even suitable for statistics. There are other tools like Originlab, Systat, Matlab, Mathematica, etc, that might better. What do you think?
2007-06-05 05:21:04 · 2 answers · asked by El Papi 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Excel is pretty much useless for any real statistics.
SPSS is probably the best package for the range available statistics and is the most common package in the social sciences. But if mention multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis and you don't know what i mean, then you probably don't need SPSS. But if you use need some special statistics then you should shop around for software that supports (my honours thesis required I use 3 different computer systems and 4 different stats packages)
It is also programmable so you can get it to do a range of your own designer statistics.
For most general statistical purposes nearly any stats package is good enough. I would probably go with Systat because it is not that expensive and quite popular.
2007-06-05 05:33:44 · answer #1 · answered by flingebunt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use the MS Excel and it works very good, I also use a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition calculator. I have used Minitab and a program called Statdisk that is OK. Keep going with Excel, I found the more I use it the better I am getting at it. It use rather a steep learning curve, like Statistics itself.
2007-06-05 05:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by Apachejohn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋