I don't know how many of you do stats on a regular basis, but this seemed as good a place to take a poll as any. I have to pick a program to use with my AP Stats class next year... uhhh.... now. I lean towards mintab since that's what I used in grad school. Anyone in here have opinions on using excel for stats? My main reason for considering excel is it may be more available to my students.
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Re: minitab or excel?
Fri, May 9, 2008 - 8:15 PMNeither... go with Mathematica and get the educational discount, which makes it affordable and it can do so much more then simple statistics. -
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Re: minitab or excel?
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 9:04 PMI've used Mathematica before and like it, but can't sell my school on it - my choices are minitab, excel, or something that starts with an "F" that I've never used (or seen used) before.... -
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Re: minitab or excel?
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 9:32 PMDo you know about R? Its free. www.r-project.org/ Interface might be daunting, but it can do much more than Excel.
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Re: minitab or excel?
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 10:23 PMInstead of selling the school on Mathematica, seel Mathematica on the school. Depending on how many copies (licenses) you would need, you might be able to get Wolfram (the maker of Mathematica) to give it to the school for the first year. Once you have it, then it should be a lot easier to get the school to pay for the future licensing deal, especially because a computer lab with it could be used for calculus, physics, algebra, and statistics, maybe economics as well.
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