Comparison of Minitab and IBM SPSS

1. Easy to learn and easy to use. SPSS is menu-driven; the software is very easy to use. Like Minitab, most of the functionalities in SPSS are organized into pull-down menus in a very intuitive way. The learning curves for SPSS and Minitab are similar.

2. SPSS is generally stronger in statistical analysis, especially in some specific area, such as ANOVA-related procedures. The add-on modules give SPSS further flexibility and potentials to develop its capacities. However, for cutting-edge statistical analysis, SPSS is stronger than Minitab. So SPSS is most suitable to you if your work involves large dataset, frequent data management, and intermediate/partially-advanced statistical analysis.

3. SPSS Statistics is loaded with powerful analytic techniques and time-saving features to help you quickly and easily find new insights in your data, so you can make more accurate predictions and achieve better outcomes for your organization.

4. View interactive SPSS Statistics output on smart devices (smartphones and tablets) and Generate presentation-ready output quickly and easily

5. Enhanced Monte Carlo simulation to improve model accuracy with a. Ability to fit a categorical distribution to string fieldsb. Support for Automatic Linear Modeling (ALM)c. Generate heat maps automatically when displaying scatterplots in which the

target or the input, or both, are categoricald. Automatically determine and use associations between categorical inputs when

generating data for those inputse. Generating data in the absence of a predictive model

6. SPSS Advanced Statistics offers generalized linear mixed models (GLMM), general linear models (GLM), mixed models procedures, generalized linear models (GENLIN) and generalized estimating equations (GEE) procedures.

Comparison of Minitab and IBM SPSS in ANOVA

Product One-way Two-way MANOVA GLM Mixed model Post-hoc Latin squares

Minitab Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes

SPSS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Comparison of Minitab and IBM SPSS in Regression

Product OLS WLS 2SLS NLLS Logistic GLM LAD Step

wise

Quantile Probit Cox Poisson MLR

Minitab Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No No

SPSS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

OLS Ordinary Least Squares WLS Weighted Least Squares2SLS 2 Stage least Squares NLLS Non Linear Least SquaresLAD Least Absolute Deviation GLM Generalized Linear ModelsMLR Multiple Linear Regression

Comparison of Minitab and IBM SPSS for Operation System Support

Product Windows Mac OS Linux BSD Unix

Minitab Yes No No No No

SPSS Yes Yes Yes No No

Comparison of Minitab and IBM SPSS for Charts and Diagrams

Chart Bar chart Box plot Correlogram Histogram Line chart Scatterplot

Minitab Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

SPSS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Product Descriptive statistics Nonparametric statistics Quality

control

Survival

analysis

Data processing

Base

stat

Normality

test

CTA Nonparametric

comparison, ANOVA

Cluster

analysi

s

Discriminant

analysis

BDP Ext.

Minitab Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

SPSS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes