I'm not familiar with Minitab or it's feature set ( I used SPSS in college), but there are plenty of free alternatives.
R - http://www.r-project.org/ - is a stats programming language. Gretyl - http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ - is more for econ regressions, but might work PSPP - http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ - is built as a free alternative to spss http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Free_statistical_software lists many more alternatives. On 10/1/09, Michael Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like it is atrociously expensive to buy a licensed copy and > worse than that, it requires from what I can tell a Windows XP system > that has 512 megs of ram. I don't have that. I have my Linux system > with 512 megs of ram. > > What is the ultimate alternative to using Minitab 15? I'm needing > to use it for a stats course. Unfortunately, I don't know of any > way to use it remotely. Do the Windows computers at PSU have any > means of being accessed remotely? > > I have the demo version of Minitab 15 which I dowloaded last night, > but that is only a 30 day solution and then I guess I have to rent > 2 more months. Man this Minitab outfit is ridiculous. > > Will Crossover Linux, the most recent version perhaps, run Minitab 15? > > I suppose I have a laptop that is in use now by my father with 512 megs > of ram and Windows XP, but it's in use. I actually have a Pentium 4 > desktop computer with a 1.80 Ghz processor and 256 megs of ram, but > that isn't enough ram to run Minitab and I don't know what kind of > DIMMs it takes. It's an SIS micro atx board. > > So I'm stuck either grabbing a copy of XP somehow and dual booting on > my Linux system, running Minitab via Wine, or using something else. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] http://aaron.jorb.in Twitter: @aaronjorbin 971-231-3499 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
