Hello to all from hot Austin,
I like Minitab too for all-purpose stats stuff. The graphing is great,
and the Monte Carlo abilities are very good too. However, my vote (at
least from an applied psych area covering cognitive psych,
psycholinguistics, measurement, speech-language pathology, and a few other
areas) is a combination of Minitab and SPSS. The two seem to complement
each other very well, imho. I also like SAS for a few procedures
requiring some lovely canned output (like SAS's excellent treatment of
dependent samples 2x2 tables), with Excel and Mathematica to round out my
needs.
Hope this helps. At least in my experience, I had to get into a program
to see how well it met my needs, and then I started adding more programs
to my arsenal as needed.
All the best,
Cherilyn
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I need to find a statistical software packages. Most of my statistical
> > work has been done using Microsoft Excel. This has worked out fine,
> > however, I need to find a more heavy duty package but nothing over
> > whelming. I perform some simple statistical work but would like to
> > begin to use a more powerful package. Any suggestion would be great.
>
> I like Minitab, myself. One virtue may be that it behaves in some ways
> like a spreadsheet, and the data are stored (& displayed, if desired) in
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