Much Thanks! I checked with my instructor and she said it was okay to use minitab. I am downloading the trial version now. Should I have trouble with the application, I'll check in again. Perhaps I can learn to use minitab and share its power with other business professionals and MBA students. Thanks again for steering me in the right direction...
Andrea Buabeng
From: Dennis Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Donald Burrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrea Whittiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help finding data tool add-in
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:04:46 -0400
since this is a minitab list ... i would suggest we not spend time detailing how to use excel to do things ...
the comments of don however, are right on the mark
At 12:02 PM 6/17/03 -0400, Donald Burrill wrote:Colleagues: The original query (copied below) was mis-sent to the L-MINITAB list. The querent evidently needs help with Excel, which I cannot supply. I know that there is an Excel listserve, but not how to access it. Perhaps one of you would be kind enough to assist the querent? -- Don Burrill.
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Andrea Whittiker wrote:
> I am sorry I thought I was making my request to the tutoraid for > statistics. I am not a statistics student and I am not familiar with > minitab. Is this standard with Excel or can I buy it?
MINITAB is a complete statistical package, unlike Excel, which is really a spreadsheet package for which, as you note, statistical add-ins can be purchased. Most statisticians I know of are dissatisfied with a number of Excel's stastistical routines, for good reason; but many MBA programs, enamored of Excel for its spreadsheet virtues, are unwilling to require proper statistical analyses, one gathers. MINITAB is available as a trial download for 60 or 90 days, I think: details would be somewhere at www.minitab.com .
> I am taking an MBA course and there is a cost analysis section and > statistic module which requires (according to instructor) use of > Excel. I have attached the assignment and her instructions below. > Thanks again and sorry for the confusion. > > Read the "Models" and "The Language of Algebra" chapters from the > Stockburger electronic text first followed by the relevant chapters > from the Lane electronic text. > > Complete the statistics problems through this Problem Set link. > > Kindly mark your answers clearly. Further, include a brief > discussion of your approach and assumptions made, if any, with each > problem. > > >From: "Donald Burrill" > > >To: Andrea Whittiker > >Subject: Re: help finding data tool add-in > >Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:24:32 -0400 (EDT) > > > >I have difficulty imagining an assignment (in an ordinary statistics > >course, anyway) that would require anything beyond the rather > >comprehensive suite of standard routines that come with MINITAB. > > (We _are_ talking about MINITAB, aren't we?) > > > >Perhaps you could offer more details about what kind(s) of data > >analysis are required by the assignment. Or about the "add-ins" that > >you think are required. Maybe you only need a few pointers to the > >appropriate routines... > > > >On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Andrea Whittiker wrote: > > > > > I have a statistics assignment due in a week that requires the > > > data analysis add-ins. They are not available on my computer when > > > I go to install them. Does anyone know of a website that may have > > > them for an evaluation period or free download? If not, is there > > > another software you'd recommend that is also free? And finally, > > > if these options are non-existent can someone recommend a low cost > > > site for a starving student.
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