Phần mềm Minitab so sánh với Excel

Excel – Positive
1. Interface dialogs are consistent and have a modem look and feel.
2. Flexible. Easy to control and modify the location of input data and output.
3. Graphs are dynamically updated, and can be embedded in Word files.
4. Wide use in business and other courses.

Minitab – Negative
1. Function interfaces are not consistent; many features are buried underneath several layers of dialog boxes.
2. Somewhat inflexible. Can not control localtion of output; hard to modify graphs.
3. Graphs are static; if the data change, the graphing process must be restared.
4. Limited use in business, other courses

Excel – Negative
1. Harder for the novice to use – often must enter cell formulas and cell ranges.
2. Occasionally misuses terminology; e.g., checking the box for “confidence level for the mean” yields the CI’ s margin of error
3. Harder to get a histogram; e.g., user must set up a column of bins.
4. Doesn’t have built-in procedures for confidence intervals and I-sample t-tests (although these can be performed).

Minitab – Positive
1. Easier for the novice to use; can do most tasks with just a few clicks.
2. Uses common statistical terminology.
3. Generates a default histogram without user-specified intervals.
4. Performs almost all inferences discussed in a first statistics course.